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I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.

Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love.

I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost too teenager-y, or too slang-y or putting too much technology or trends in there. I try to stay pretty trend-neutral. I try not to mention too many current bands or current TV shows.