Samuel L Jackson: It’s a piece of our history that generally gets sort of whitewashed or perfumed in a way that this film just doesn’t do.

It’s always great to find a character on the inside of one of Quentin’s stories to wrap myself around.

Once we started doing table readings in Los Angeles I discovered where I wanted to go with Stephen, who he was, and what I wanted him to be.

It’s an interesting relationship between Leo and I that works out very well in terms of Django’s relationship to Dr. Schultz. Their relationship is almost shadowed by our relationship.

I was here since his father was here, and probably spent a lot of time with him as a child and kind of raised him.

I’m almost like the father that’s gone. We have another relationship in private than the one we have in public.

Leo’s characterisation is awesome, and when we’re alone he becomes the child that I used to take care of, and teach things, and talk to, and have a sterner relationship with in terms of making him get in line and understanding what’s going on.

Jamie Foxx: Quentin and Sam’s relationship makes you jealous, like, ‘Wow, man. Them dudes know each other.

And I look forward to having that type of relationship with Quentin here on out.

They know each other, they’ve got each other’s back, they figure things out. They came up with nifty stuff that I think that wasn’t even in the script, but that enhanced everything.

Samuel Jackson was a true juggernaut.