“The way I see it, everyone's a Geek of some sort. Football, films, music - it doesn't matter what the interest is; if you're fascinated by it, then you're a Geek. Simple as that.”

“The word "geek" today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.”

“After all, we're currently living in a Bizarro society where teenagers are technology-obsessed, where the biggest sellers in every bookstores are fantasy novels about a boy wizard, and the blockbuster hit movies are all full of hobbits and elves or 1960s spandex superheroes. You don't have to go to a Star Trek convention to find geeks anymore. Today, almost everyone is an obsessive, well-informed aficionado of something. Pick your cult: there are food geeks and fashion geeks and Desperate Housewives geeks and David Mamet geeks and fantasy sports geeks. The list is endless. And since everyone today is some kind of trivia geek or other, there's not even a stigma anymore. Trivia is mainstream. "Nerd" is the new "cool.”

“The key difference between a geek and a critic is that acritic digs deep and tries to get behind the surface of things,for better or worse, while a geek is interested in his own hedonism,the thrill of discovery.A geek is expansive and associativeand doesn’t necessarily care what a film or a scene ‘means’. It’sthe difference between the encyclopaedia and the scholar. Acritic likes an interesting association, a nice phrase; the geekadmires the beau geste, a pulpy story and its codes of honourtaken seriously.Tarantino rather combines those two roles. He is encyclopaedicbut also interpretive. He is a human Rolodex ofcredits. His films are like stuffed overnight bags breaking at theseams. The Handel of filmmakers, he takes the whole ofcinema as his resource. But he also provides new meanings,new interpretations of old moments by the way he recontextualizesthem.”

“Howdy, pardner," he said. "Howdy… mad scientist. I don't know any geek-speak, so that's all you're getting.”

“In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.”