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 TARANTINOEmotion 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 TARANTINOWhen people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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 TARANTINOAs a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
QUENTIN TARANTINOAs a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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.
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINODogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINOAll my movies are achingly personal.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMovies 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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