Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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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.
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As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they cared about themselves. But two, was actually at a certain point I just realized that I love movies too much to simply appear in them. I wanted the movies to be my movies.
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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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.
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I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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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.
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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's not song lyrics but it's kind of like song lyrics. It's not rap but it's kind of like rap. And it's not stand-up comedy but it is kind of like stand-up comedy. It's all those things together.