I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

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."

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.

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.

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