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 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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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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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L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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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 am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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.
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