"I'm a big fan of the moment. I think it's all we have."

"But when the black critics came out with savage think pieces about Django, I couldn't have cared less. If people don't like my movies, they don't like my movies, and if they don't get it, it doesn't m…"

"There are two kinds of violence. First, there's cartoon violence like Lethal Weapon. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm not ragging on that. But my kind of violence is tougher, rougher, more disturb…"

"I'm shutting your butt down!"

"My movies are very personal. I'm working in a genre, no doubt about it... but to me all the movies are very personal."