My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Movies 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.
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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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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The good ideas will survive.
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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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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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