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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIt’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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.
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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 only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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The good ideas will survive.
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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.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.
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It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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