Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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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 thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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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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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
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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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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'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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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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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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 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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To me, America is just another market.
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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 will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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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 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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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 was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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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've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.