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

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.

You can do all these kinds of things that are up close and personal, but you really have to bring your strength, and really - you have to really be committed to actually strangle the life out of somebody, to crush their larynx and just squeeze every drop of life out of them.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.