And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to be able to sell my jokes. And if you're tal….

Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem with them doing my di….

Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I'm going back, and suddenly there is this tensio….

That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, a….

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika..

If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the mo….

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them..

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of v….

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks..

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people..

I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be….

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies..

I'm not a huge big fan of music video..

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels..

If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're ….

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid..

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty..

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character..

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms..

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest..

I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-playe….