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 TARANTINOThe children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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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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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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.
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Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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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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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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Violence is fun, man.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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.
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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I’m basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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