Quentin Tarantino Quotes

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

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.

Violence is fun, man.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

I 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.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

A 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.

What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

I'm not a huge big fan of music video.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

To me, America is just another market.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?