Quentin Tarantino — "I'm a mad scientist when it comes to making movies."

"Violence was like another character in the room. It hung over the proceedings. You kept waiting for every conversation to break out into it. So even if it was funny, the audience might have laughed, b…"

"He's not really fully formed. They grow. They teach me who they are."

"I'm a filmmaker. I don't care about the real world."

"You wouldn't think the colour of a writer's skin should have any effect on the words themselves. In a lot of the more ugly pieces, my motives were really brought to bear in the most negative way. It's…"

"It was statutory rape. He had sex with a minor. That's not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you're talking about violent, throwing them down — it's like one of the most violent crimes in the w…"