Full Name	The Rocket Summer
Net Worth	$17 Million
Date Of Birth	August 23, 1965
Place Of Birth	Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
Height	6' (1.83 m)
Occupation	Motion picture/television screenwriter, director and producer
Profession	Singer, Drummer, Guitarist, Songwriter, Keyboard Player, Multi-instrumentalist
Education	Grapevine High School, Colleyville Middle School
Nationality	American
Spouse	Tara Avary
Nicknames	Roger Avary, Avary, Roger
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Movies	Rocket Summer: Calendar Days
Star Sign	Virgo

#	Trademark
1	Frequently uses composers tomandandy.
2	Frequently works with Eric Stoltz.
3	Frequently casts legendary porn star Ron Jeremy in bit parts.
4	Wild, crazy, hyper-kinetic energy on film.
5	Often shows silent films on TV in his films.

#	Quote
1	As I was reading the serialized version of Sandman: The Doll's House, it was like having a third eye open in my forehead. Johnny Depp as Dream. Fairuza Balk as Death. I would subcontract Jan Svankmajer or the Brothers Quay (Timothy Quay and Stephen Quay) to animate the transitions from the dream realm into our own world, so as to simulate the graphic style of Dave McKean's covers. It would be a glorious and magnificent epic. A year and a half after my first meeting, I politely left the project, not wanting to be the guy who ruined the Sandman film adaptation. I simply couldn't imagine the Lord of Dreaming throwing a punch. Just because it looked like Batman (1989) at first glance didn't mean it was. But Jon Peters, the "savant" producer Warners had attached to the project couldn't be dissuaded. I moved on, a year and a half of my life gone to the ether. No more real to me now than the memory of a dream.
2	[on Ron Perlman] Ron Perlman is a giving actor, with no pretensions. He's wonderful to work with, full of ideas, and a truly gifted actor. When he came onto the production of Mr. Stitch (1995) the set literally lit up. Working with him was one of the bright moments of my career, and I would work with him again in a hot second. This must sound like I'm going overboard, but Ron has such an elegant, wonderful and bright personality that I honestly don't think it's an exaggeration. I mean, how often can you say that you're a better person for having met someone?
3	[on the detractors of The Rules of Attraction (2002)] It does not matter to me if you hate the movie. What matters to me is if you are ambivalent. Anybody can do "thumbs up, thumbs down". That's the real problem with film criticism today. It's been reduced to "I like it, I dislike it". Criticism should be more of an examination of exactly why a film makes you feel the way you feel.
4	[on Quentin Tarantino doing his Top Gun (1986) speech in the film Sleep with Me (1994)] Important lesson learned. Intellectual properties can be taken from you if you put them in the air. Result is to never speak to anyone else ever again and withdraw from society. Keep few friends and speak to them rarely.
5	[on the characters in The Rules of Attraction (2002) and them as people] 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".
6	[on the film adaptations of Bret Easton Ellis books Less Than Zero (1987) and American Psycho (2000)] Those two movies have stripped away his literary devices, and the filmmakers are just trying to tell the story. If you strip away Bret's devices, you strip away his themes - they're part and parcel of each other.
7	[on Pulp Fiction (1994) and all the inspiration and effect it had] 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".
8	[on Quentin Tarantino] I've realized that I can't hang out with him. I talk with him, and he just sucks stuff from me.

#	Fact
1	Was originally going to direct RPM (1998), but backed out of the project after the script had been re-written countless times.
2	Was originally set to write Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012) (having previously written Silent Hill (2006)) and had actually begun writing a draft when he was sent to jail for gross vehicular manslaughter and two felony counts of causing bodily injury while intoxicated. The film was then delayed until the studio hired Michael J. Bassett in Fall 2010 to write and direct.
3	Is a vegetarian.
4	Was attached to direct the film version of Neil Gaiman's novel "The Sandman" at one point.
5	On Jan. 14, 2008, he was arrested in Ojai, CA, on charges of DUI (driving under the influence) and manslaughter after an automobile accident in which one person was killed.
6	A direct descendant of pirate/marooner Henry "Long Ben" Avary.
7	Wrote a script for a fifth "Phantasm" movie called "Phantasm's End". It came close to being made by series creator Don Coscarelli and starring Bruce Campbell. Finding the funding was the only issue.
8	Wrote a script entitled "Pandemonium Reigns" which was never produced, but significant elements were later used to make Pulp Fiction (1994).
9	Though Quentin Tarantino received credit, it was actually Avary who conceived the Top Gun (1986) gay reference speech that Tarantino used in Sleep with Me (1994).
10	Met Quentin Tarantino at a video store called Video Archive where they both worked in the 1980s.

Title	Year	Status
XIII: The Series	2012	TV Series executive producer - 13 episodes
Beowulf	2007	executive producer
Glitterati	2004	producer
The Rules of Attraction	2002	executive producer
The Last Man	2000	executive producer
Boogie Boy	1998	executive producer
Odd Jobs	1997	TV Movie producer
Mr. Stitch	1995	TV Movie executive producer
The Worm Turns	1983	Short producer
The Boys	1983	Short producer

Title	Year	Status
XIII: The Series	2012	TV Series 3 episodes
Beowulf	2007	screenplay
Silent Hill	2006	written by
Glitterati	2004
The Rules of Attraction	2002	screenplay
RPM	1998	story - original script, uncredited
Odd Jobs	1997	TV Movie
Mr. Stitch	1995	TV Movie written by
Crying Freeman	1995	uncredited
Pulp Fiction	1994	stories by
Killing Zoe	1993	written by
True Romance	1993	uncredited
Reservoir Dogs	1992	background radio dialog
The Worm Turns	1983	Short writer

Title	Year	Status
Glitterati	2004
My Best Friend's Birthday	1987
The Boys	1983	Short

Title	Year	Status	Character
Reservoir Dogs	1992	creator: Dog Eat Dog logo
Maximum Potential	1987	Video production assistant

Title	Year	Status
Phantasm: Ravager	2016	special thanks
The Taking of Deborah Logan	2014	special thanks
Return to Zero	2014	very special thanks
John Dies at the End	2012	special thanks
36 pasos	2006	spiritual support
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy	2001	Documentary special thanks
Phantasm IV: Oblivion	1998	special thanks
Full Tilt Boogie	1997	Documentary special thanks
Crying Freeman	1995	the producers wish to thank
True Romance	1993	very special thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Silent hill: entre deux mondes	2009	Video documentary	Himself
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf	2008	Video documentary short	Himself
Beasts of Burden Designing the Creatures of Beowulf	2008	Video documentary short	Himself
The Art of Beowulf	2008	Video documentary short	Himself
The Origins of Beowulf	2008	Video documentary short	Himself
Buzz: AT&T Original Documentaries	2007	TV Series documentary	Himself
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'	2006	Video documentary	Himself
Anatomy of a Scene	2001	TV Series documentary	Himself
+ de cinéma	2001	TV Series documentary short	Himself
The 67th Annual Academy Awards	1995	TV Special	Himself - Winner: Best Original Screenplay

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2008	Saturn Award	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA	Best Writing	Beowulf (2007)
1995	International Fantasy Film Award	Fantasporto	Best Film	Killing Zoe (1993)

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
1995	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Screenplay - Original	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995	CFCA Award	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Best Screenplay	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995	DFWFCA Award	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards	Best Screenplay	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Screenplay	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995	NSFC Award	National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA	Best Screenplay	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1994	BSFC Award	Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	Best Screenplay	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1994	LAFCA Award	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	Best Screenplay	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1994	Best Film	Mystfest		Killing Zoe (1993)
1994	Critics Award	Mystfest		Killing Zoe (1993)
1994	NYFCC Award	New York Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Screenplay	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1994	STFC Award	Society of Texas Film Critics Awards	Best Screenplay	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1992	LAFCA Award	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	Best Screenplay	Unforgiven (1992)

The Rocket Summer net worth is $17 Million

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