That’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 TARANTINOIf you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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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 good ideas will survive.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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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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If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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Violence is fun, man.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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.
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