I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

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 said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

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

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.