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" All my movies are achingly personal. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer. "

" Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. "

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

" I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. "

" I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that. "

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

" I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go. "

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

" 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 come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another. "

" 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. "

" I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director. "

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

" I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year. "

" If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. "

" I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it. "

" I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.' "

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