"When people talked about Reservoir Dogs being as violent as it was, part of that was, I was afraid people would be bored. Violence was like another character in the room. It hung over the proceedings."

“I don't have to work for a living. I get to be an artist and I get to be respected as an artist and my stuff is viewed that way. It could be bad art or good art, but that's where I'm coming from.”

“I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.”

“Sure, Kill Bills a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.”

“Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.”

“To me, torture would be watching sports on television.”

“It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.”