Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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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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One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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To me, America is just another market.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing 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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I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine friend. Robert Rodriguez is a genuine friend. Rick Richard Linklater is a genuine friend. Eli Roth is a genuine friend. And so is Edgar Wright.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.