Top 100 Quotes About Quentin Tarantino
#2. Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news is you have to do it." I was like: "Oh Jesus, when am I supposed to do this?" I was prepping Hostel.
Eli Roth
#4. I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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#5. Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.
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#6. I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.
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#7. If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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#8. Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.
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#9. Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
Ato Essandoh
#10. 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.
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#11. Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
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#12. I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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#13. One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director.
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#14. To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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#18. The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.
Melanie Laurent
#19. I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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#20. A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'
Dennis Christopher
#21. To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.
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#22. My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.
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#23. Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I'm going back, and suddenly there is this tension. I just walk down the street, we were just on the way. And she thinks I'm a rapist. And now I feel guilty, even though I'm a damn poor did not.
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#24. I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
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#25. To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band' ... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.
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#26. I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.
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#31. Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.
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#32. 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.
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#34. There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!
Chika Anadu
#35. Do i look like a beautiful blond with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice-cream?
No. no, you don't.
Then why are you telling me all this bullshit just so you can fuck me.
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#36. Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.
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#37. There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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#38. I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
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#39. I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
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#40. 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.
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#41. I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.
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#42. Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
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#43. I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
Bill Plympton
#44. I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.
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#45. That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.
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#46. Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.
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#47. One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"
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#48. You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.
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#49. My dream role would be to play a femme fatale in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Meaghan Rath
#50. In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
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#51. I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.
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#52. Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word in edgewise for, like, an hour. But as a director, he is so completely open and just ... present.
Phil LaMarr
#53. Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
Vanessa Ferlito
#54. I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him.
Eliza Doolittle
#56. 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.
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#57. My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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#58. In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.
Ron Perlman
#59. Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.
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#60. What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.
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#61. I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!
Bipasha Basu
#62. But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they're not just any Jews. They're the American Jews. They're Jews with entitlement.
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#63. His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the '80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.
Lou Lumenick
#64. Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.
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#65. I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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#66. The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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#67. I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the Indians, right? She goes, yup, that's who we'd be. We wouldn't be those guys in the covered wagons. We'd be the Indians.
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#68. I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.
Daniella Alonso
#69. What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.
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#73. Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.
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#74. I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.
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#75. You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.
Kirsten Dunst
#78. I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.
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#79. It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.
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#80. Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.
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#81. One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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#82. You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli.
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#83. 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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#84. I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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#85. If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fu*kers to turn the music down.
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#88. A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.
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#89. I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.
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#90. I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
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#92. I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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#93. When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And they were struggling with it. And then, Christoph [Waltz] came in and I didn't know who Christoph was.
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#94. I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
Halsey
#95. I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.
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#96. It's 4:40am and i'm standing in the middle of a Quentin Tarantino version of Finding Nemo
Holly Smale
#97. 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.
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#99. Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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#100. I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.
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