I'm a historian in my own mind.

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

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

A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.

One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.