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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMovies 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.
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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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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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.
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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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I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.
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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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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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If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
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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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