 Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. |
| When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. |
| Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. |
| To me, America is just another market. |
| I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. |
| My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. |
| The good ideas will survive. |
| I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. |
| I steal from every movie ever made. |
| I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. |
| A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. |
| If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. |
| Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room. |
| I'm a historian in my own mind. |
| 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. |
| It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. |
| Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. |
| 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. |
| Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. |
| I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. |
