Quentin Tarantino Quotes
"If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Writer, Writing)
"I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Work)
"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Thought, Hollywood, Stars)
"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
(Related: Writer)
"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
(Related: Movies, Apologies, Existence, Hollywood)
"I'm a historian in my own mind."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Mind)
"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
(Related: Blood, Cinema, Water)
"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
(Related: Writing)
"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
(Related: Freedom, Pretty, Trying)
"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Time, First)
"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Expectations, Want)
"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
"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
(Related: Faith, Money, People, Want)
"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
(Related: Life, Movies, Time, Film, Weekend)
"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
(Related: Mom, Movies, Knowledge)
"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
(Related: Manager, Old, Theatre)
"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
(Related: Love, Fun, Want)
"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
(Related: Charm, Dogs, Film, Now)
"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Influence)
"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Interest, School)
"The good ideas will survive."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Ideas, Will)
"To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Pen)
"To me, America is just another market."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: America)
"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
(Related: Movies, Music, First, Play, Writing)
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Fun, Violence)
"I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do."
- Quentin Tarantino
"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Actor, Parents)
"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Actor, Writing)
"I steal from every movie ever made."
- Quentin Tarantino
"I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: History)
"I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Love, Romance)
"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
(Related: Art, American, Cinema)
"I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Fiction)
"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
(Related: Dumb)
"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 want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Language, Want)
"I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling."
- Quentin Tarantino
"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Dogs, Personality)
"As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed."
- Quentin Tarantino
"A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Truth, Saying, Secrets, Voice, Writer)
"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
(Related: Home, Thought, Pretty)
"I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning."
- Quentin Tarantino
(Related: Horror, Marathon)