One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!".

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet..

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my c….

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent….

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?.

I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, th….

I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or while I'm writing it or when I'm making it. Because again, I don….

But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs..

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home..

Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most pe….

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real….

If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives a….

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the m….

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible..

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life..

... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds..

ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time..

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you ….

I shot the way I wanted to shoot [in The Hateful Eight]. The only real disadvantage I felt at the time, but I don't feel now, was that we weren't abl….

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere..

I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea….