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

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills or things like that, and you know, cut up the bodies and stuff. And then the other enemy soldiers would come across and find their comrades laying there, ripped apart, and they would be sickened by it and it would scare them.

By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.