Wrote a script entitled "Pandemonium Reigns" which was never produced, but significant elements were later used to make Pulp Fiction (1994).

Met Quentin Tarantino at a video store called Video Archive they both worked at in the 1980s.

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.

A direct descendant of pirate/marooner Henry "Long Ben" Avary.

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.

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).