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.

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

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

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

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

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.