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 TARANTINOA 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
-
-
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I 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 TARANTINO -
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I steal from every movie ever made.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
You 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 TARANTINO -
My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINO -
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
QUENTIN TARANTINO