Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
-
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
-
Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
-
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
-
I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
-
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
-
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
-
I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
-
The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
-
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
-
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
-
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
-
There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
-
I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
-
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
-
I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
-
I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
-
The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
-
The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.
-
I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.
-
Anyone who's done their homework knows that the West was a pretty rough-and-tumble place. People from all over the world were there - and when you were there, you had to be tough as nails.
-
For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
-
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.
-
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.
