The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

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

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.

When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.