Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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The world is always terrible.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.
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It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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I was offered the Gene Hackman role in 'The Poseidon Adventure' four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn't want to do that movie. I called it the upside down boat.
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I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
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I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
