My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOYou name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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 TARANTINOYou can’t write poetry on the computer.
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 TARANTINOI’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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 TARANTINOI want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe good ideas will survive.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThat’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 TARANTINOWhen people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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.
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