Philosophical Sayings

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.

I'm telling you, the ingenuity of alcoholics is something else. If only it could be put to some kind of good use. I mean, if you said to an alcoholic, 'Look, the only way for you to get another drink is to cure cancer,' the disease would be history i…

The music business is like any other business, y'know? When sales are going well, everything's hunky-f**king-dory. But the second something goes wrong, it's all blood and law-suits.

I'd convinced myself that there was no point in even trying, because I was just going to fail, like I had at school, at work, and at everything else I'd ever tried. 'You ain't no good as a singer,' I told myself. 'You can't even play an instrument, s…

The bottom line is I don't believe in a bloke called God in a white suit who sits on a fluffy cloud any more than I believe in a bloke called the Devil with a three-pronged fork and a couple of horns. But I believe that there's day, there's night, th…

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

A writer, a writer- you know, you should have this little voice inside of you saying, 'Tell the truth.'

TV's fun, it's good. I've carried memories that I've seen on television for most of my life. But it's also a disposable experience.

This is a debased genre of literature, but I'm all about debased genres of art that people don't respect.

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

The minute you put handcuffs on artists because of stuff like that, it's not an art form anymore.

I make violent movies. I like violent movies. I'm on record about how I feel there is no correlation between art and life in that way.

I'm not trying to make Hateful Eight contemporary in any way, shape, or form. I'm just trying to tell my story.

If you have a problem with my movies, then they aren't the movies to go see. Apparently, I'm not making them for you.

My philosophy forever has been it doesn't matter what you're like as long as you're interesting. Interest is everything.

I just want the same rights that a novelist has... you can write a novel about a bastard, but he can be totally interesting.

My movies are very personal. I'm working in a genre, no doubt about it... but to me all the movies are very personal.

Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. I can't do just this little bit to just get by.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.