My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOYou can’t write poetry on the computer.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThere are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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 TARANTINOAs 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOWhen I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
QUENTIN TARANTINOSomething stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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