Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.
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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 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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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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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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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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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 actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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 want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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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 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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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.