The good ideas will survive.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe good ideas will survive.
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 TARANTINOI am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
QUENTIN TARANTINODon’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIn real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI steal from every movie ever made.
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 TARANTINOOne can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
QUENTIN TARANTINOSomething stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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 TARANTINOI 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 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 TARANTINOI want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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