To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made - whether they meant to make it or not.

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.