Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Roger Avary

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian producer Roger Avary.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Roger Avary

Roger Roberts Avary is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. Avary directed Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction, Lucky Day, and wrote the screenplays for Silent Hill and Beowulf.

One of my very favorite television shows growing up was 'The Prisoner.'
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'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.
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'.
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.
Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines. — © Roger Avary
I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.
What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.
'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.
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
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.
I reveal too much of myself.
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.'
Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
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".
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