I ended up on Quentin Tarantino's Wikipidea page, and came across a quote I loved:

Tarantino was one of the few filmmakers pushing for Chinese action filmmaker John Woo to make an American film. When a studio executive once said "I suppose Woo can direct action scenes," Tarantino replied "Sure, and Michelangelo can paint ceilings!"

The page also references an interview with Tarantino by a site called japattack, and there's this insane dialogue about the influences on Kill Bill. The interviewer has as much arcane kung-fu cinema knowledge as Terentino, and the cite dozens of films and directors.