- On his transition from movies to TV:
"I got used to it quickly, because it's an easier job than what I was doing. I was making four or five films a year, mostly independent films, around the world. Out of the 41 films I've done, maybe seven of them have been studio films, I had an easy gig. So I would go from film to film. And there would be a new crew, new actors, new directors, new producers, new locations, some much worse than others. I'm not complaining about the work; I just saying that having a nice trailer on the set, a nice hotel, and a studio and a network behind your show is a lot easier than wondering why your tent is leaking."
On his role as JT in Planet Terror:
"He's fortunate enough to be the owner and proprietor of the best damn barbeque joint in Texas – period. He's working on the perfect recipe in the midst of all of this. He's just concerned with getting the perfect recipe, and he's just about there, and then all hell breaks loose. The wonderful thing for me and for this character is that in the midst of all this insanity and this wild ride he's got one thing on his mind and that's that barbeque sauce."
- When asked if he was lined up to be in the full-length Machete movie:
"No. I just remember shooting it the day that I finished shooting my last scene. Robert said, "Can you go and try that suit on that's in your trailer?" I said, "Sure." And he said, "And maybe shave a little bit, and I'll meet you upstairs in the office." I show up and there's cameras, and he goes, "Here, have a look at this, Jeff. Can you get on the floor and say these lines, and then come outside and stand here as though a motorcycle with a machine gun is flying over your head." That was that, and now there's a trailer apparently."
- When asked if he barbeques in real life, following his appearance in the movie Grindhouse:
"No, and I'd better start because everybody's asking and I'd better come up with some real good reason soon."
- On appearing on the new TV show "The Marshall":
"All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys -- I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there -- but I just do my work. And now this. People say it's going to change your life. I tell them that it's always changing anyway."
When asked if he was a method actor: "Oh, it's a culmination of a lot of things. We've all gone through a lot of different styles and a lot of different techniques, whether it's Stanislavksy or Meisner, and then the people you work with throughout your career. You take a bit of this and a bit of that. And so I can't define myself as a specific style. I hope that it's ever changing. I mean, I'll walk away from this with part of how Mike works and how Robert and the other people work and you just sort of put it in a stew and push it forward.
- "Question: In the context of having done Psycho III and The Coach, how does it feel when you read a script with the line "I must have passed out after I killed those zombies" except it's intentionally supposed to be funny?
"Oh, it's a gas, because there's a lot that we don't understand even in the making of it. That you trust that he's going to take it into this fascinating place. I think I can speak for the two of us on this, but we're just happy to be in the presence of people of the caliber of Robert and Quentin and to be able to trust and so easily move forward with it all."
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