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

But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they're not just any Jews. They're the American Jews. They're Jews with entitlement.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.