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

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.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

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

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.