The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

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

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.