I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.

Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.