If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany. The majority of them, especially once the war got going, you hardly saw Nazi officers in it at all. They were mostly musicals and comedies and melodramas and stories of great German men from the past.

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

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.