black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Death Fun Genre Live Love Myself
All my movies are achingly personal.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Heart Broken Movie Personal
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Character Yourself
I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Believe God Myself
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

Basic Goodness Home Professional Sound Thinking Yourself
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Justice People Police Protest Shoot
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

Celebration Invitation Job Party Yourself
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

Failure Gate Myself Reach Risk Talent Test Time
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Enough Goodness Love Movie Yourself
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Character Job Myself Right Writing
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Myself Novel Paper Pen Pieces
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

Communication Deal Freedom Language Myself Prison Stay Word Writing
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Color Life Reality Terrible Violence Work
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Death Easy Kill Solution Way
Violence is fun, man.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Fun Man Violence
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 TARANTINO

Clever Cool Emotion Greatness Win Yourself
L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Big Different Live Planet Yourself
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Boredom Game Movie Myself Stupidity Understand
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Life Love Movie Myself Remember Time
I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Afraid Artist Failure Greatness Life Reward Thinking
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.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Couple Emotion Enough Goodness Movie Night
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 TARANTINO

Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
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

Audience Believe Elite Low Myself Person Thinking
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Age Children Parents Preserve System
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Expectation Movie Myself Surprise Top
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Character Job Judgement Myself Point View

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quentin Tarantino Quotes