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 TARANTINOMy plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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Particularly 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.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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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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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.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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.
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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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