Roger Avary was arrested in January 2008 for DUI and manslaughter after his friend died in a car accident while Avary was at the wheel.

Avary was fired after disagreements over the creative direction with executive producer Jon Peters, best known for Batman and Superman Lives.

It was due to their meeting on the Sandman movie project that Avary and Gaiman collaborated one year later on the script for Beowulf.

Avary took on the producer's role, and he and Tarantino tried unsuccessfully for several years to get funding so that Tarantino could direct the script himself.

When the Paul Brothers, a pair of wealthy bodybuilders who wanted to get into the movies, offered Tarantino funding for his script Natural Born Killers on the condition he include a scene featuring them, he could not write it out of disgust, and asked Avary to write it as a favor.

Most notably, Avary contributed material which, combined with Tarantino's, formed the basis of Pulp Fiction ( 1994 ) for which he and Tarantino won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Avary had initially intended to write a screenplay completely devoted to this experience, for which Tarantino suggested the ironic title Roger Takes a Trip.

But when producer Lawrence Bender called Avary during location scouting on Reservoir Dogs asking if he had a screenplay that took place entirely in a bank so that they could take advantage of an inexpensive location they had no use for, Avary told Bender that he had such a script — and quickly wrote Killing Zoe in under a week, using elements of his European trip as inspiration.

Roger Avary became a spokesperson for Apple's Final Cut Pro product, appearing in Apple print and web ads worldwide.

Roger Avary, the film's director became the spokesperson for Final Cut Pro, appearing in print advertisements worldwide.

Avary stated he wanted to make " an art-house film for both the coffeehouse crowd and the exploitation crowd.

Shortly after Hello, Good Friend was released, Avary left The Militia Group for a major record label deal.

Avary finished the record in March 2009 but had to wait for behind-the-scenes industry issues to clear.

Avary was recently approached by several platinum-selling artists who have asked him to write singles for their upcoming albums.

Avary co-wrote the song " Stomping The Roses " for American Idol alum, David Archuleta.

Avary attended and performed acoustic at the Dallas Rescue for the Invisible Children campaign in Dallas, TX, on April 25, 2009.

On June 23, 2009, Avary played at the closing ceremony for the Invisible Children rally, " How It Ends ," which took place on the White House Ellipse Lawn in Washington D. C.

As a child, Avary appeared as a contestant on Nickelodeon's Double Dare after he and his family successfully auditioned for the TV show while on a family vacation at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL.

Prior to launching his music career as The Rocket Summer, Avary worked as a Starbucks barista for four months — an experience that inspired him to write the song " This is Me " off of his album Calendar Days.

So too were Roger Avary, the writer / director of The Rules of Attraction, Chuck Kelley co-founder of the internet radio station LuxuriaMusic, and producer Daniel Snyder, who is best known for the documentary Dreams on Spec.

Avary has cited these changes as " natural " products of " growth and ... spiritual growth.

Avary was also scheduled to play an acoustic set at the SXSW Music + Film + Interactive Conference in Austin, TX, on March 20, 2010.

In August 2010, Avary announced he would be going on a nationwide headlining tour of the US where he will be playing completely solo, telling stories, looping songs and playing acoustic versions of many songs he has written.

In September 2010, Avary confirmed that The Rocket Summer would be joining the annual Australian music festival Soundwave in 2011 which tours the country's capital cities.

Avary has also lent his vocals to several charity events.

Avary has called Glitterati a " pencil sketch of what will ultimately be the oil painting of Glamorama.

There is also a second commentary with fellow filmmaker and self-proclaimed Romero fan, Roger Avary.

Avary also wrote and directed the neo-noir cult thriller Killing Zoe ( 1994 ) which Tarantino executive produced.

The film was also an influence on Tarantino ; according to Avary, Tarantino, while rewriting Pulp Fiction, added the heroin scenes after viewing a rough cut of Killing Zoe.

The film was also celebrated by the Cinémathèque Française, who heralded Avary as " the Antonin Artaud of cinema " during their Cinema of Cruelty retrospective.

In 2002, Avary directed his adaptation of the novel, which he also executive produced.

Avary mixed some of the tracks with Neal Avron and produced the album with CJ Eiriksson, who also engineered the album.

Avary attended Colleyville Middle School in Colleyville, TX, where musician and singer-songwriter Norah Jones also attended.

Invitations were also open to film directors Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.

When in 1981, Video Out-Takes co-owner Lance Lawson ( a name that comes up repeatedly in Avary and Tarantino's films ) left to open the now famous Video Archives Avary went along, writing the store's database program with fellow 6502 programmer Andy Blinn on an Atari 800 computer.

" Pandemonium Reigns " ended up forming the basis of the " Gold Watch " chapter of Pulp Fiction ( an earlier version of his website displayed an excerpt from " Pandemonium Reigns ", illustrating the changes that were made by Tarantino when writing " The Gold Watch "), and other odd scenes Avary had written during his rewrite of True Romance were reworked and incorporated into the Pulp Fiction script, such as the accidental shooting of Marvin, and the scene in which the bullets fired at Jules and Vincent miss their targets.

After the band broke up, Avary began performing local acoustic shows as a teenager in Dallas, Fort Worth and Denton.

Roger Avary was originally attached to direct after the success of Pulp Fiction, collaborating with Pirates of the Caribbean screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio in 1996 on a revision of their first script draft, which merged the " Preludes and Nocturnes " storyline with that of " The Doll's House ".

Since Tarantino was busy prepping Reservoir Dogs, Avary was hired with Tarantino's consent by Tony Scott and Hadida to work as a script doctor on the material, a job which included bringing the length down, reforming the narrative to a linear fashion, and writing a more commercial ending where the Clarence character is not killed.

Ellis refused, stating that he " thought it was such a terrible and gimmicky idea ", and Avary eventually shot the scenes with Casper Van Dien.

Avary stated that, as a first time director, it was a dream to work with actors as talented as Jean-Hugues Anglade, Eric Stoltz and Julie Delpy.

In November 2006, The Militia Group re-released The Rocket Summer's self-released 1999 EP as The Early Years EP, but Avary signed with major record label Island Def Jam Records.

The video was co-directed and funded by Bryce Avary with director Nate Weaver.

Hamann and Tarantino starred in the film, along with several video store and acting class buddies, and worked on the crew, which included fellow Video Archives employees Rand Vossler and Roger Avary.

The Seafarers was released on DVD in 2008 with audio commentary from directors Roger Avary and Keith Gordon, as well as an interview with one of Kubrick's daughters.