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 TARANTINOMovies 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
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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.
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The good ideas will survive.
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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