“First of all, it’s Quentin Tarantino. Not only because he’s a big name, or the career moves of it, but I’m a huge fan of his work and I think he has an appreciation for movies that a lot of contemporary filmmakers don’t have anymore. He comes from a tradition of making films that are exciting and emotional and fun. All of his movies are just fun and his characters are so specific and human. He writes women really well because he makes them as human as the male characters, and a lot of people, especially male writers, don’t do that. They don’t know how to take women from being one-dimensional. Quentin does.”

— Tracie Thoms (on what attracted her to Death Proof)