Quentin Tarantino
actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer, film actor, writer, film editor, television actor, director, producer, film screenwriter
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All Quotes by Quentin Tarantino
“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.”
“Watch the movie closely, and you’ll see how personal it is. Here’s a film in which cinema brings down the Nazi regime, metaphorically and literally. What could possibly be better than that? In this story, cinema changes the world, and I fucking love that idea!”
“I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.”
“Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.”
“I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.”
“I look at Death Proof and realize I had too much time.”
“I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages.”
“Once a lonely caterpillar sat and cried,”
“Sure, Kill Bills a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.”
“I am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.”
“Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.”
“To me, torture would be watching sports on television.”
“But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.”
“Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.”
“Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.”
“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”
“If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.”
“CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.”
“I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.”
“I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.”
“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”
“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”
“Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.”
“When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.”
“I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.”
“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.”
“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'”
“I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.”
“I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.”
“If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.”