Roger Avary Quotes & Sayings

“Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.”

“I reveal too much of myself.”

“TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.”

“One of my very favorite television shows growing up was 'The Prisoner.'”

“'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.”

“What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.”