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

Quentin Tarantino

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

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" '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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I steal from every movie ever made. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre. "

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" None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them. "

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

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" 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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" I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. "

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" 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. "

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" Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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