When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.