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.

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

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 totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

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

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