To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
• 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.
• 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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
• 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.
• My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
• My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
• 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 always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.