Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the ’80s.
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It’ll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
I cannot get myself interested in video games. I’ve been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.
Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.
I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them.
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain’t white boy day, is it?
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
All my movies are achingly personal.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn’t be writing screenplays. I’d be writing novels.
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
I wasn’t trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
I’m a historian in my own mind.