The good ideas will survive.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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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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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.
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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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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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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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.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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To 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.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
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One 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.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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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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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’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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