Quentin Tarantino Quotes

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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

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Killing you and what you represent is a statement. I'm not exactly sure what it's saying.

Quentin Tarantino
I just realized that I need to be a director for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to - when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.

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I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

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And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.

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I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or when I'm writing it or when I'm making it, because again, I don't want to hit these nails on the head too strongly.

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To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

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But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany. The majority of them, especially once the war got going, you hardly saw Nazi officers in it at all. They were mostly musicals and comedies and melodramas and stories of great German men from the past.

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With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right. And consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and got to "Kill Bill" volume 1 and 2.

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Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.

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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.

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The minute any word has that much power, everyone on the planet should scream it.

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

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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

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Somebody's stickin' a red hot poker up our asses and we gotta find out whose name is on the handle.

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I don't really give a fuck what you know or don't know, but I'm going to torture you anyway, regardless.

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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

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

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Watch the movie closely, and you'll see how personal it is. Here's a film in which cinema brings down the Nazi regime, metaphorically and literally. What could possibly be better than that? In this story, cinema changes the world, and I fucking love that idea!

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

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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.

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The worst thing about movies is, no matter how far you can go, when it comes to violence you are wearing a pair of handcuffs that novelists... don't wear.

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To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

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Everybody thought I'd gone crazy... I wasn't crazy. But when I was holding the shotgun, it all became clear. I realized for the first time my one true calling in life. I'm a natural born killer.

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Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

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I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages.

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Why am I Mr Pink?... Why can't we pick our own color?... Mr Pink sounds like Mr Pussy. Tell you what, let me be Mr Purple. That sounds good to me.

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That was a little bit more information than I needed to know.

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