Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."

When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'