Quentin Tarantino

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

All my movies are achingly personal.

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

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.