“Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.”

“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”

“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.”

“CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.”

“My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.”

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