Quentin Tarantino quotes

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“The good ideas will survive. ”

— Quentin Tarantino

“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

“Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“I steal from every movie ever made. ”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

“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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“To me, America is just another market.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

“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. ”

— Quentin Tarantino

“Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. ”

— Quentin Tarantino

“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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“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. ”

— Quentin Tarantino

“It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

“I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty”

— Quentin Tarantino

“I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

“I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“I'm a historian in my own mind.”

— Quentin Tarantino