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

I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.