As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
QUENTIN TARANTINOA 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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The good ideas will survive.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.
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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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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 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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.
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