If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI steal from every movie ever made.
QUENTIN TARANTINOWhen people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
QUENTIN TARANTINOEmotion 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 TARANTINOViolence is fun, man.
QUENTIN TARANTINOOne 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 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOJust because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
QUENTIN TARANTINOYou 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOParticularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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