A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

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.

I’m a historian in my own mind.

If I wasn’t a film-maker, I’d be a film critic. It’s the only thing I’d be qualified to do.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’

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’m not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.

The good ideas will survive.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

I don’t think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.