Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie….

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism..

You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daught….

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie..

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie..

The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin..

You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I ….

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie..

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals..

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or did….

I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of t….

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, bu….

Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," the way they use the Civil War i….

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time..

I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the Indians, r….

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling..

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning..

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movi….

I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up..

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them….

American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills or things like that, a….