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

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.

By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.