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

But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they're not just any Jews. They're the American Jews. They're Jews with entitlement.

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

And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.

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

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

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.