When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence. I want nudity. I want sex and violence mixed together. What's wrong with that? Am I the only one? I don't think so.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way.

The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.