I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.
I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
It’s very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
I’m a big collector of vinyl – I have a record room in my house – and I’ve always had a huge soundtrack album collection.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
I couldn’t spell anything. I couldn’t remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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.