Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

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 was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.