Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it. Giving advice to young aspiring filmmakers at the 1994 Independent Spirit Awards

I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2', but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

It's an artistic calling. It's a religion. You shouldn't be doing it as just a day job, to pay for your pool or pay for your house in Barbados. You should do it when it's special, when you'd die for the movie, when the movie is your baby.

I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages. 1994

In the movie we did a song called the Hawaiian Wedding Song. And it was so real that it took me ten years before I realized I wasn't married to the chick. On "Blue Hawaii" (1961)

Sure, Kill Bill's 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. On media criticisms of violence in his movies

Some movies are slices of life. Mine are slices of cake...

I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager - this crazy old movie guy. March 2005

What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether. On media criticisms of violence in his movies

I am a genre lover – everything from Spaghetti Western to Samurai movie.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.