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

I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.

I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

A thing when I was writing the movie 'The hateful eight' was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.