I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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 TARANTINOAs a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence is fun, man.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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 TARANTINOTo 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 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 TARANTINODogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
QUENTIN TARANTINOJust because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThat’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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOOne can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
QUENTIN TARANTINOYou can’t write poetry on the computer.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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 TARANTINOI steal from every movie ever made.
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