Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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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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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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 a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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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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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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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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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.