I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.