Roger Avary

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.

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

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'.

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

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 restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.