Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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To me, America is just another market.
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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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'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer.
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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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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
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All my movies are achingly personal.