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

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'