I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

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

I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made - whether they meant to make it or not.

But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they're not just any Jews. They're the American Jews. They're Jews with entitlement.

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

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

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.