We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.

I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

I have kept working, even if Ive thrown off the big movies I used to do. I still have three or four wonderful little movies coming out.

If you don't have trust inside your company, then you can't transfer it to your customers.