You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board..

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap..

I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, t….

When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition wi….

As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they car….

What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn child….

I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punch….

Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But becau….

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper..

I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the le….

I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of getting immersed in his world. To….

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced..

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good a….

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different rec….

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next..

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do..

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns..

Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good ….

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence..

I'm a historian in my own mind..

I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to it. You can put it on metal, and it has this ….