“Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.”

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

I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.

That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.

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

Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.

You can’t write poetry on the computer.

The good ideas will survive.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.

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.

One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Why don’t they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

No matter who you are, we’re creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.

Never fight with a pig. You will get dirty, and the pig will love it.”

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

I’m human, you’re human. So they said, but inside we’re all animals.