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

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.

I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

They [American Indians] never did straight-up fights. It wasn't about, you know, getting killed in the line of fire. It was all ambush, ambush, ambush, and you ambush somebody, and then you take the scalps, and you - even though scalping wasn't created by the American Indians. It was created by the white man against Indians, and they just took it and claimed it.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.