Quentin Tarantino - Movie Quotes

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

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

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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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