I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.

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.

I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the Indians, right? She goes, yup, that's who we'd be. We wouldn't be those guys in the covered wagons. We'd be the Indians.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.