I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

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 write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

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 you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

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

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Violence is fun, man.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

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

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films