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.
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
-
-
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 -
That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I steal from every movie ever made.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
QUENTIN TARANTINO