"The good ideas will survive."
"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy."
"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."
"I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do."
"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'"
"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."
"When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies."
"I steal from every movie ever made."
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
"When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it."
"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence."
"To me, America is just another market."
"To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper."
"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."
"Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room."
"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."
"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
"My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid."
"Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life."
"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back."
"It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere."
"If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels."
"I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty."
"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced."
