" Avary co-wrote the background radio dialogue in Reservoir Dogs ( 1992 ), and designed the " Dog Eat Dog " logo which appeared in the end credits.

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.

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 approves the designs for his products, and as of February 2010, has also teamed up with designers from Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters to create apparel for the clothing line.

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.

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.

Roger Avary ( born August 23, 1965 ) is a Canadian film and television producer, screenwriter and director in the American mass media industry.

In 2002, he played Sean Bateman ( younger brother of American Psycho protagonist Patrick Bateman ) in the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis ' The Rules of Attraction, written and directed by Roger Avary.

Beowulf is a 2007 American motion capture fantasy film written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary inspired by the Old English epic poem of the same name.

In August 2007, Todd Hollenshead stated at QuakeCon 2007 that a Return to Castle Wolfenstein movie is in development which re-teams the Silent Hill writer / producer team, Roger Avary as writer and director and Samuel Hadida as producer.

As an employee of the Video Archives, a now-defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach, he and fellow movie enthusiasts, including Roger Avary, discussed cinema and customer video recommendations at length.

The movie will be written and directed by Roger Avary and Samuel Hadida is the producer.

An unusual and revolutionary use of split screen as an extension to the cinematic vocabulary was invented by film director Roger Avary in The Rules of Attraction ( 2002 ) where two separate halves of a split screen are folded together into one seamless shot through the use of motion control photography.

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

Avary intended the film to be in part visually inspired by animator Jan Švankmajer's work.

Among those first ranchers were John Avary, J. J. Draper, and the Cowden brothers — Doc, Tom, and Walter.

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.

Among this group, Avary met an odd and brilliant film enthusiast, Quentin Tarantino.

Early in his career, Avary made a number of contributions to some of Quentin Tarantino's movies.

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.

Earlier in their careers, Tarantino and Avary had planned on making an anthology movie comprising three short films ; one written and directed by Avary, one written and directed by Tarantino, and one written and directed by a third filmmaker, reportedly Adam Rifkin.

In addition to the many songs recorded by him, in 1956 he co-wrote, with Jody Williams, the pioneering pop song " Love Is Strange ", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957.

Fuller went into a collaborative partnership with composer Ben Weisman and co-wrote one song, " Rock-A-Hula Baby ", for the film.

Ramone co-wrote and recorded the song " Meatball Sandwich " with Youth Gone Mad.

The song " I've Seen It All " ( which Trier co-wrote ) received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.

Later in life he purportedly discovered a half-brother named James Owen, with whom he co-wrote the song " Theme from A Summer Place ".

* Lamont Herbert Dozier credits Klein as an inspiration for the song he co-wrote " Loco in Acapulco "; " I believe the song depicts the consumeristic nature of the materialist society that is obsessed with brand identity.

Also that year, Abdul co-wrote the song " Spinning Around " with songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi, who became a fellow judge on American Idol in 2009.

Hell also co-wrote and sang lead vocals on the song " Never Mind " by The Heads, a 1996 collaborative effort between three former members of Talking Heads.

They also co-wrote the song We Are The Normal with Paul for their 1993 album Superstar Car Wash.

He also co-wrote, along with Joey Richards, the closing theme song of the second season of The Monkees, " For Pete's Sake ".

But it was her 1938 version of the nursery rhyme, " A-Tisket, A-Tasket ", a song she co-wrote, that brought her wide public acclaim.

During their first rehearsal, he co-wrote the song " In the Flat Field ".

Prince also co-wrote, with Willie, the 94 East song, " Just Another Sucker ".

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Cher ’ s single " We All Sleep Alone " and also produced several other tracks on the album, later going on to co-produce Cher ’ s multi-platinum album Heart of Stone in 1989 and co-wrote the song Does Anybody Really Fall In Love Anymore ?.

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora also produced and co-wrote the song called Hell Is Living Without You on Alice Cooper's album Trash in 1989.

Miller's weekly radio broadcast " I Sustain the Wings ", for which he co-wrote the eponymous theme song, moved from New Haven to New York City and was very popular.

Lauper co-wrote " Time After Time " with Rob Hyman when her producer, Rick Chertoff, suggested to the band that the album could use one more song.

In 1990, Lauper co-wrote the song " Paper Heart " ( a song about drug addiction ) with Go-Go's alumna Jane Wiedlin.

Also in 2000, Lauper co-wrote a song, " If You Believe ", with Faye Tozer of the British pop group Steps.

Mitchum also co-wrote ( with Don Raye ) the theme song, " The Ballad of Thunder Road.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.