If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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.
I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or… Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don’t give a fuck how crazy they are!
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.
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.
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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.
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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.
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.
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.