In some ways, I think ‘Pulp Fiction’ hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to ‘Pulp Fiction.’ – Roger Avary
‘XIII’ is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to ‘The Bourne Identity.’ I tried to take it away from that. I believe there was, many years ago, before the Bourne movies, a lawsuit that made it so they couldn’t be published in English. – Roger Avary
Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn’t write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You’d be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, ‘I love these characters’. – Roger Avary
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities – the actors, multiple producers. – Roger Avary
TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You’re basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour’s worth. – Roger Avary
Incarceration didn’t change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me. – Roger Avary
When you’re a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That’s where I want to be judged. – Roger Avary
The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. – Roger Avary
I’ve been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career. – Roger Avary
