I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
I am doing what I’m doing, and if you don’t like it, don’t go see it.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
I’m not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I’m gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it’d almost be okay because I did it. It’s there on the page.
I steal from every movie ever made.
To me, torture would be watching sports on television.
I don’t have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn’t a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.
I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.
To me, America is just another market.
That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
I don’t really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I’m doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I’m gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
Violence is fun, man.
I didn’t go to film school, I went to films.
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
I hate The Confederate cause. I’ve always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.