If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

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

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

I shot the way I wanted to shoot [in The Hateful Eight]. The only real disadvantage I felt at the time, but I don't feel now, was that we weren't able to get a zoom lens, and I had really gotten used to using a zoom lens for that little zoom creep. But it was also a nice thing to be forced to not use all the tools that you've gotten used to, from time to time, and to be able to work in a different way.

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

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.