Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

Values reflect what is important to the way you live and work.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so its fun. Its almost better than chocolate ice cream.

My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

Even if you lie to me...that's okay. I'll be satisfied with as much of yourself as you can give me.