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Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.

I'm analytical as an actor, and one of the things Quentin did was free me from that.

A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.

I credit Kansas City with my work ethic and learning from the amazing artists that are in that town.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.

I'm actually from Mt. Kisco, New York, which is in Westchester County, and when I auditioned for 'Dukes,' I told them I was from Snailville, Georgia, which doesn't exist, and I'd just graduated first in my class from the Georgia School of High Performance Driving, which also doesn't exist. But they bought it.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.