Top 100 Quotes About Quentin Tarantino
#1. 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
#2. Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
Ato Essandoh
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. My dream role would be to play a femme fatale in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Meaghan Rath
#8. 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
#9. Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
Vanessa Ferlito
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
Halsey
#17. It's 4:40am and i'm standing in the middle of a Quentin Tarantino version of Finding Nemo
Holly Smale
#18. I'd love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino, but these are dreams I don't need to rush to achieve. I'll be ready to make those movies when I'm ready to make those movies and they're ready to make them with me, if they ever want to.
Douglas Booth
#19. With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.
Jamie Foxx
#20. When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.
Walton Goggins
#21. Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.
Ken Bruen
#22. There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They're all bad guys. And you like us. That's Quentin's big talent.
David Carradine
#23. Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
Nancy Sinatra
#24. If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.
Walton Goggins
#25. Quentin [Tarantino] is a filmmaker who really dives into things very seriously and deeply. And when he does interviews, he really wears his heart on his sleeve and he doesn't hold anything back.
Simon Kinberg
#26. Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment
rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.
J. Hoberman
#27. If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
Madison Davenport
#28. I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don't want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.
Tyler, The Creator
#29. I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#30. I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, and I don't think I've met anyone who's as generous of spirit as Quentin Tarantino.
Larry Bishop
#31. The great thing about reading for Quentin [Tarantino] is you're not reading for him, he's reading with you. So he sits right next to you.
Seth Rogen
#32. Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares.
Tina Fey
#33. There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
Saoirse Ronan
#34. Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.
Steve Erickson
#35. Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
Bob Weinstein
#36. I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.
Harvey Weinstein
#37. Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.
Claudia Schiffer
#38. I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
Salman Rushdie
#39. I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.
Christopher Walken
#40. I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
Madison Davenport
#41. Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
David Foster Wallace
#42. Maybe when you're alone or no one's looking, you dare to think, "Maybe someday I could get to work with somebody like Quentin Tarantino." For me, it happened. And it didn't just happen once, it's happened twice.
Walton Goggins
#43. I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Robert Osborne
#44. Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.
Rose McGowan
#45. Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.
Eli Roth
#46. I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hunter S. Thompson and Quentin Tarantino to 'The Dark Knight' and 'Halloween'. Just show me something that doesn't suck, and I'm happy.
Corey Taylor
#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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#53. Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.
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#54. 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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#55. Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#76. 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.
Quentin Tarantino
#77. Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"
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#88. You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#92. 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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#93. My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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#94. Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.
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#95. 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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#96. 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.
Quentin Tarantino
#97. 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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#98. I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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#99. The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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#100. 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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