I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

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

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of...

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I...

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

I steal from every movie ever made.

I’ve always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

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

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I’d probably make it for $3 million now so I’d have more breathing room.

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.

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

It’s very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

To me, America is just another market.

Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or… Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don’t give a fuck...

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.

I’m a big collector of vinyl – I have a record room in my house – and I’ve always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I’m writing a movie, is...

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

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and...

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

I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

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

I couldn’t spell anything. I couldn’t remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

When I’m writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I’m doing it, as I’m writing it.

You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? Giggling like a bunch of young broads in a school yard. Well, let me tell you a joke: Five guys sitting in a...

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

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.

I’m a historian in my own mind.

If I wasn’t a film-maker, I’d be a film critic. It’s the only thing I’d be qualified to do.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’

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

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

I’m not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.

The good ideas will survive.

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

I don’t think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

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

My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

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.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I don’t really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I’m doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I’m...