Natural Born Killers

• Oliver Stone tried to re-write Natural Born Killers (NBK) and was killed by the media for it
• Quentin used character name "Mickey Knox" from parts of his past. Mickey was a character in a book he stole when he was a teenager, and also an actor named Mickey Rourke. Knox came from Knoxville, Tennessee, where his grandparents live
• Q was very attached to his roots
• One of his characters was named Grace Mulberry, but in original script, Q put Lovelace instead of Mulberry several times (Grace Lovelace = Q's love interest)
• never considered himself a writer, but wrote out scenes just to play them in his head
• seemed to use black humour in scripts
• Has a theory about first films: a director's first movie has to make a splash, so he got Rand to continue to direct it himself. Q left the movie to Rand, but Rand handed it over to other directors and there were law suit problems
• Cut off ties with his "go-nowhere friends" (Video Archives friends who didn't become famous so to speak) if he could talk with the likes of Uma Thurman or John Travolta
• some believe that though Quentin didn't get famous fast, once he did get famous, he got really famous and it went to his head
• Q still thinks of Rand (the man he sort of screwed over) as a friend, and thinks that it was the nicest thing anyone could ever do when he allowed Rand to direct it
• After a while, regretted giving up NBK, because he could have made it later or used material from it for his other films