Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

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

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."

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

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.