It’s a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody’s arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
I’m not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.
If I wasn’t a film-maker, I’d be a film critic. It’s the only thing I’d be qualified to do.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
I look at ‘Death Proof’ and realize I had too much time.
Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it’s always like, they don’t know how to do it.
I’ve always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
When I’m writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I’m doing it, as I’m writing it.
I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.
But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It’s the little differences.
I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.
A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.
Critics don’t want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That’s good for criticism.
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
I’m not a huge big fan of music video.
You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.