All my movies are achingly personal.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

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.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.