“I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.”

“I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

“I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.”