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

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

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

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

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

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

The good ideas will survive.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 steal from every movie ever made.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

To me, America is just another market.

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

All my movies are achingly personal.

Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

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 blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.