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Type: Director Quotes Category: American Director Quotes Date of Birth: March 27, 1963 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Quentin Tarantino Related Authors: Woody Allen Elia Kazan Francis Ford Coppola Ken Burns James Broughton Neil LaBute Chuck Jones |
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Quentin Tarantino As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. Quentin Tarantino Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. Quentin Tarantino Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. Quentin Tarantino I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. Quentin Tarantino I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. Quentin Tarantino I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything. Quentin Tarantino I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. Quentin Tarantino I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. Quentin Tarantino I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. Quentin Tarantino I steal from every movie ever made. Quentin Tarantino I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. Quentin Tarantino I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on. Quentin Tarantino I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. Quentin Tarantino I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino I'm a historian in my own mind. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. Quentin Tarantino I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. Quentin Tarantino I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. Quentin Tarantino If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. Quentin Tarantino It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. Quentin Tarantino My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. Quentin Tarantino My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. Quentin Tarantino My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy. Quentin Tarantino Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. Quentin Tarantino Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. Quentin Tarantino The good ideas will survive. Quentin Tarantino To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. Quentin Tarantino To me, America is just another market. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. Quentin Tarantino When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. Quentin Tarantino |
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