I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing..

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography..

I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could a….

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting..

Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him..

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 m….

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 definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends..

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue..

To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So I mean that was one of the first things….

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing..

I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it….

I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be m….

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..

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it..

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away..

You can't write poetry on the computer..

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 bette….

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it..

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective..

I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting clas….