black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Quentin Tarantino

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Confusion Emotion Movie Myself Start View
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
Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Heart People Reading Thinking Voice Writing 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
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
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
One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Correct Myself Politics Time
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
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
If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Focus Love Movie Offering People Yourself
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Bad Goodness People Response Writing
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

Computer Poetry 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
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
QUENTIN TARANTINO

History Love Movie Myself Perspective See
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

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Quentin Tarantino Quotes