Quentin Tarantino delayed the start of the production because Uma Thurman was pregnant.
Warren Beatty was originally offered the role of Bill. After turning it down, he suggested to Quentin Tarantino that he use David Carradine.
Uma Thurman was offered the script to Kill Bill, and her role as "The Bride", as a 30th Birthday present from Quentin Tarantino.
Uma Thurman's yellow track-suit is a direct homage to the one worn by Bruce Lee in Game of Death (1978).
In order to achieve the specific look of Chinese "wuxia" (martial arts) film of the 1970s, Quentin Tarantino gave director of photography, Robert Richardson, an extensive list of genre films as a crash-course in the visual style they used. The list included films by genre-pioneers Cheh Chang and the Shaw Brothers. Tarantino also forbade the use of digital effects and "professional" gags and squibs. As such, he insisted that bloody spurts be done in the fashion made popular by Chang Cheh: Chinese condoms full of fake blood that would splatter on impact.
Part of the movie was shot at the legendary Shaw Bros. studio in Hong Kong. Quentin Tarantino has seen so many movies made at the studio that he felt it was important for him to work there.
During production, Quentin Tarantino wrote new scenes as he shot thus compiling massive amounts of footage.
The Tokyo miniature sets were leftovers from the then most recent Godzilla film (_Gojira, Mosura, Kingu Gidora: Daikaijû soukougeki (2001)_ ).
The movie was conceived during the filming of Pulp Fiction (1994) when Quentin Tarantino would constantly tell the actress what would become the film's tagline: "Uma Thurman will Kill Bill!"
Christopher Allen Nelson, who worked on the special effects, revealed in interview that over 450 gallons of fake blood was used on the two Kill Bill movies.
Kevin Costner was also considered for the title role of "Bill", but he turned it down to do Open Range (2003) instead.
Quentin Tarantino has confirmed in interviews that the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (DIVAS)" was inspired by "Fox Force Five", the fictional television show that Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) filmed in Pulp Fiction (1994).
Director Trademark: [Quentin Tarantino] [Trunk Shot] While The Bride is interrogating Sofie Fatale, we see from Sofie's point of view inside the trunk of her own car looking up at the masked Bride.
Director Trademark: [Quentin Tarantino] [bare feet] Lucy Liu is barefoot as she runs to kill Boss Tanaka. The band at the House of Blue Leaves is barefoot.
According to Quentin Tarantino, Sonny Chiba's character, Hattori Hanzo, is meant to be the most recent descendant of his character(s) from "Hattori Hanzô: Kage no Gundan" (1980). The series was done in multiple various installments, in which Chiba would play Hanzo a generation removed from the previous installment.
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