Quentin Tarantino Quotes
16 quotes from Quentin Tarantino — Film director known for Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood..
“All my movies are achingly personal.”
“If a million people see my movie, I hope they see a million different movies.”
“I steal from every movie ever made.”
“When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.”
“When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.”
“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'No, I went to films.”
“Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.”
“I am a genre lover—everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.”
“My advice for when you want to find a story you want to tell is: What is a movie you want to see? What is it that you want to contribute? There's a whole lot of movies you could see without you. What's the movie that we have never seen because you haven't made it. Make that movie.”
“The most influential film of the '90s, so well written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it — the noses of those zombie writers who take "screenwriting" classes that teach them the formulas for "hit films.”
“If you think about the idea of all the movies telling one story and each film is like a train boxcar connected to each other, this one would sort of be the big showstopping climax of it all. And I could imagine that the 10th one would be a little more epilogue-y.”
“I was put on Earth to face the blank page. Before I make the movie, I watch the movie. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”
“I'm just telling my stories and doing my thing. I like dealing inside of genres and getting inside of subgenres. The genres that I have been dealing with have sensationalistic, violent material — be it crime movies, kung fu movies, samurai movies, slasher movies, car chase movies — so they naturally lend themselves to it.”
“Don't buy a house until you can afford to completely pay for it outright. You basically become an employee of your house. So every decision that you make becomes, "Can I pay my mortgage?" Not, "Is this best for my career?”
“Not one word of social criticism that's been leveled my way has ever changed one word of a script or any story I tell. I believe in what I'm doing wholeheartedly and passionately. It's my job to ignore that.”
“I haven't seen characters like these in years.”
