None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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.
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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.
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.
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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...
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their...
When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alon...
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite...
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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 you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how...
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to...
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.