My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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As 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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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