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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOJust because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
QUENTIN TARANTINOL.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
QUENTIN TARANTINOAs a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIt’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINOYou can’t write poetry on the computer.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence is fun, man.
QUENTIN TARANTINOOne 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOTo 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
QUENTIN TARANTINOYou name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
QUENTIN TARANTINOPigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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