Antihero Protagonist Quotes

One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day.

McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.

It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the '40s.

The great thing about 'Breaking Bad' was they were able to write themselves out of anything.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

The only reason I was offered 'Punisher' was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and was filled with fight scenes.

There was a point I felt like everyone was heading in that direction of 'How can we be darker than 'Breaking Bad?'

I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.

I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love 'The Americans,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'True Detective,' 'House of Cards' and 'Peaky Blinders.'

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'

I make movies on gritty topics like crime, the underworld, and horror. I don't make movies with good-looking people in good-looking locales.