The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.

If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.

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

... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

I am doing what I'm doing, and if you don't like it, don't go see it.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.