L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem with them doing my dialogue in English. And it wasn't a matter of fluency.

I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny, so I'll just say, 'No Phone Quentin'.

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

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.