When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

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.

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.