Quentin Tarantino Quotes
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
-
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
-
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
-
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
-
Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
-
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
-
The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
-
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
-
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
-
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
-
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
-
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
-
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
-
I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
-
Actors can't retire. What would they do?
-
I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
-
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
-
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
-
Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
-
If one looks with a penetrating eye into the facts, he will clearly perceive that no two things are so closely akin as independence of action and freedom, because the bad man has a multitude of encumbrances, such as love of money or reputation and pleasure, while the good man has none at all. He stands defiant and triumphant.
-
In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
-
If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.
-
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
