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.
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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 gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
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.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.