Quentin Tarantino
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.Collection: Morning
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.Collection: Pet
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Movies
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.Collection: History
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Religion
I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.Collection: Movies
My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Movies
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Movies
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Movies
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.Collection: Money
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'Collection: Movies
One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.Collection: Business
Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Faith
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
The good ideas will survive.
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
I steal from every movie ever made.
I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
All my movies are achingly personal.
I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.
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 want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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.
I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.
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 don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.