I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them.
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain’t white boy day, is it?
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
All my movies are achingly personal.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn’t be writing screenplays. I’d be writing novels.
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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’m a historian in my own mind.
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’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 was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.
If I wasn’t a film-maker, I’d be a film critic. It’s the only thing I’d be qualified to do.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
I look at ‘Death Proof’ and realize I had too much time.
Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it’s always like, they don’t know how to do it.
I’ve always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
When I’m writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I’m doing it, as I’m writing it.