128 Quentin Tarantino Quotes
The good ideas will survive
I'm a historian in my own mind
I steal from every movie ever made
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away
Yeah, baby, that's what I'm talking about!
To me, America is just another market
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch
Predicting the future, I'm not good at
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way
I guess I'll have to marry Elvis Presley to get even

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He picked up cherries off a block of ice with his butt!
Ben Affleck, he looked like a little girl!
A story is something that constantly unfolds
My Casino Royale would have been like the book
To me, all movies are very personal
I saw Jackass and I saw what I'd been missing
Artistically, from 55 on, I'll probably write novels
I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty
I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper
If there is only one film you see this year, let this be it
If there's another level of heaven, that's where I'm at
I was an usher at this porno movie theater at 16. Lied about my age
I just have to have something to do. I could live 'til 100
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie
I was interested in stories, and I was really interested in reading
I'm delivering the goods, but I'm also trying to reinvent it, in a way
If you can't handle pressure in directing, then you can't handle it
The first two jobs I got totally had to do with like the porno industry
The million movie, I'll make it look like a million movie
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing
I thought, I'm going to make my first film by the time I'm 26
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling
Tell you what. Next time I do a movie, you can drive me to the set
I'm a little concerned about my voice thing getting old hat
I loved The Passion of the Christ. I loved The Incredibles
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them: No, I went to films
Revenge. All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds
That pain that I'm feeling has got to find its way into the story or else, what am I doing?
I've always had kind of a game plan, but I don't have a story that I'm burning to tell
I was the president of the Cannes Film Festival, so I saw a lot of really cool movies
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue
The fact that England has embraced me as one of its own is really cool
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do
If they're going to do the book, I can't imagine why they wouldn't hire me, alright?
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns
I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, that type of story
I guess I always knew movies were written, but I didn't know what a director was
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here
Any guy that's going to get shot for his art, that's an actor who will go all the way with you
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced
When I go out on stage, I have to bring that experience on with me, or what am I doing up there?
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed
I've come to a point where I like Pauline Kael's reviews of Goddard more than Goddard's films
Apocalypse Now was a major success. That was a smash. The film went on and made 0 million
I made Jackie Brown like the way I felt about Rio Bravo. It's just like, I know those people
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next
Jackie Brown, maybe that worked against me. I'm talking about the day it was released. Not now
I wasn't familiar with him, and I thought the scene was too brutal for the song. So what do I know?
If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it
I never set up a fall-back situation because I didn't want to fall back. I wanted to have to keep eating at it
For both novels and film, 75 percent of the stories you're going to tell will work better on a dramatic basis
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience
Whatever success I've got has come after like eight years of just nothing working out, trying to get a job in film
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning
I might end up taking a novel and adapting it. That still requires me to write, but it's also coming from somewhere else
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 like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema
I will never do "Pulp Fiction 2", but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection
I had kind of this like weird tunnel vision, where it's like once I got into it, I didn't have room for anything else as a kid
That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb. I wanted a lot of wall time and Wally gave me the wall time
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid
Sure, Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down
This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I'd wanted all that computer game bullshit, I'd have stuck my dick in a Nintendo
I'm making specific films. And if you make a specific film, that's not everything for everybody. You're going to turn some people off
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back
I created, more or less, in these last 20 years, this type of film. And I do it better than anybody, but I'm bored with doing it now
I think in the case of both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, it gains a lot more resonance being told in this kind of wild way
The way I look at it is: this is my samurai movie, this is my badass chick movie, this is my spaghetti western and my comic book movie
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
I think I've got another 15 years to still kick ass, and after that I'm out of it. I don't wanna see a movie where the guy's gotta take Viagra
I enjoy the lucky situation that I have, where I get to live the life of an artist, and in the most expensive art form in the world
There's only one list that's more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d'Or. It's the list of directors who didn't
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere
I would like be acting out all the parts with all the G.I. Joes, and directing these little plays just for myself with the G.I. Joes
I was trying to create the most exciting action sequence in the history of cinema. It took me about a year to write the final fight sequence alone
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
I don't really want to see movies from people that can't get it up anymore, and I don't really want to make movies if I can't get it up anymore
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'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies
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
Most of the movies that you see nowadays, you pretty much know everything you're going to see in the movie by the first 10 or 20 minutes
The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room
I could do it, I've actually figured out a way, even though the characters have gotten older, to do it. I just have to have the ambition to write it
If there's one thing I've done that I'm the proudest of, is the fact that people talk about, Wow. You've had such success, and it's just been so overnight
Going into a videostore and going through the videos, looking at every title they have, trying to find some old spaghetti western, that's gone
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on
To 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
I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level
You go to the awards ceremonies all year long, you keep losing to Forrest Gump! It's really annoying the hell out of you - what do you do? You go to the MTV Awards!
There's quite a few directors where you can't believe the work that they did in the '70s is the work they're doing now. You can't believe it's the same man
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me, like I would die for it
When I was on "The View", Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema. And then she came back,"But this is America". And I go, "I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth"
I'm not, you know, Ronald McDonald opening up this Kmart or something. Rather than asking me for my autograph, you're actually watching a movie with me. If you want to sit there and talk about how to get into the business and ask me questions about "Pulp Fiction" I'm not going to be very responsive. I'll probably shut you down. All right? But if you want to talk to me about the movie we just showed and what you thought about it, I'll talk to you all night
If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of
When I give props to these movies, you have to understand - it's not like they were all good. There's an expression: You have to drink a lot of milk before you can appreciate cream. Well, with exploitation movies, you have to drink a lot of milk-gone-bad before you can even appreciate milk! That's what part of the love of these movies is - going through the rummage bin and finding the jewels
What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether
I'm never going to be shy about anything, what I write about is what I know, it's more about my version of the truth as I know it. That's part of my talent, really - putting the way people really speak into the things I write. My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been
Oh yeah, initially I was thinking this would be my "Dollars Trilogy". I was going to do a new one every ten years. But I need at least fifteen years before I do this again. I've already got the whole mythology: Sofie Fatale will get all of Bill's money. She'll raise Nikki, who'll take on The Bride. Nikki deserves her revenge every bit as much as The Bride deserved hers. I might even shoot a couple of scenes for it now so I can get the actresses while they're this age
When I was directing ER, I didn't want to stand out. Everyone else is wearing all that crap. I wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be the odd man out. I wanted to be inside, not on the outside. When I was directing the ER thing, the emergency room guys wore the green scrubs. I wore those for a few days. Then, I wore the blue scrubs, which were the surgeons, for a few days. When I wore the nurse's pink scrubs, though, that's when I became a hero on the set. The nurses didn't think I was going to throw in with them. I ended the episode, the last two days, wearing the nurses' scrubs. When I walked on the set all the nurses applauded me. They were like, "Oh my God, he's so cool!"
First off, I've always thought of the black suits as mine, so I don't think of them as Agent Smiths, I think of them as Reservoir Dogs with less cool sunglasses. The similarities between the fight sequences never occurred to me until I had a director's screening and Luc Besson turned up with Keanu Reeves as his guest. I watched Keanu watching and suddenly I felt it
It's supposed to be kind of amusing and poetic at the same time. And also just a teeny-tiny bit solemn. When you see her head, it's funny. And then her line, that really was a Hattori Hanzo sword, that's funny. But then, the next shot is not funny, when she tips over and Meiko Kaji is singing about revenge on the soundtrack. So, it's all together. Funny. Solemn. Beautiful. Gross. All at the same time
The exploitation films were made in such an artless way with these big wide shots of Sunset Boulevard or of Arcadia or downtown L.A. or wherever. In mainstream films, especially in the 1980s, the Los Angeles you saw wasn't the real one, it was a character with this back-lot sort of atmosphere. They tried to luxuriate it. In exploitation films, you see what the place really looked like, you see the bars and mom-and-pop restaurants
And that is, of all the revenge movies I've ever seen, that is definitely the roughest. The roughest revenge movie ever made! There's never been anything as tough as that movie
I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager - this crazy old movie guy
I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called Living Under the Rule of Godzilla. This is what society is like when a big fucking green lizard rules your world

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I don't think it's a stretch. I always knew Johnny was a good actor. But also, when you're looking for the ultimate, charming, redneck-scoundrel rascal, I think Johnny's the go-to guy
His movie is called "Planet Terror", and mine is called "Death Proof". Mine is sort of a slasher film, but instead of a knife, it's a car. His, he's dealing with zombies and all that stuff. I think his might end up being more violent, but I'm not finished with my script yet, so you never know
It's like surf music, I've always like loved that but, for me, I don't know what surf music has to do with surf boards. To me, it just sounds like rock and roll, even Morricone music. It sounds like rock and roll Spaghetti Western music, so that's how I kind of laid it in