Quentin Tarantino Quotes (54 Quotes)

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

If there's another level of heaven, that's where I'm at,

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.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

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

Ben Affleck, he looked like a little girl When I saw Ben Affleck and Dave Spade acting like little girls, I said I got this one. I'm all good. I don't have to worry about nothing. ... That part that was in the wall, that was the bomb.

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

I wasn't familiar with him, and I thought the scene was too brutal for the song. So what do I know

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.

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.

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

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

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 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've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

The good ideas will survive.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

Tell you what. Next time I do a movie, you can drive me to the set.

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.

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

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

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 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.

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.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

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

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

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

I steal from every movie ever made.

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.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

To me, America is just another market.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

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'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 (expletive) night.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

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.

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 a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

Yeah, baby, that's what I'm talking about.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

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

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