L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

I steal from every movie ever made.

I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

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

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.