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

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

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.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

The flame of the spirit is burning lamp.

You walk through the right way, you will be crowned.You walk through the wrong way, you will be drowned.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing a secret that Santa Claus farted.

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.