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 TARANTINOYou 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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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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I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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