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.
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 TARANTINOYou don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
QUENTIN TARANTINOA writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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 TARANTINOI 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThere are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence is fun, man.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
QUENTIN TARANTINOA 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
QUENTIN TARANTINODon’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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 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 TARANTINOI’m basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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