“Paradoxically, that large screen in the cavernous, crowdedroom creates intimacy. And violence is an intimate act. If youare punching someone, or if you are pinpointing someone inthe telescope of your rifle, you are as close to your victim as toa lover, trying to think like them, anticipate their moves, overcomethem.”

“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.”

“Like the atomic bomb, it’s there; like the bomb, the temptationwill always exist to use it.There can no longer be a worldwithout the atomic bomb; there can no longer be a worldwithout violent movies.”

“Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.”

“By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.”

“What is it about words? The addictive nature of them? And when we lose them from one cherished source, we frantically search for them amongst the glittering rubble of someone else's poetry, someone else's lyric, someone else's prose.Never to find quite their equal among the wispy fragments of someone else's loss.”

“If you grant someone a small loan and you never see that person again, consider absolutely worth the payment for his disappearance from your life.”