Tarantino Film Quotes

#1. The beauty of a Tarantino film is that the visuals match the rhythm of the words. That's his goal. And that's my goal.

Robert Richardson

#2. I didnt go to film school, i went to films

Quentin Tarantino

#3. 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

#4. Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

Quentin Tarantino

#5. 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

#6. 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.

Quentin Tarantino

#7. I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.

Hanley Ramirez

#8. 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

#9. I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

Quentin Tarantino

#10. When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Quentin Tarantino

#11. If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

Quentin Tarantino

#12. 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

#13. If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Quentin Tarantino

#14. We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

Charles Spurgeon

#15. If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.

Steve Erickson

#16. Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

Eli Roth

#17. I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

Lawrence Block

#18. If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.

Quentin Tarantino

#19. I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.

Quentin Tarantino

#20. If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.

Quentin Tarantino

#21. Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.

T.A. Barron

#22. I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.

Quentin Tarantino

#23. And yet she feels no pain and watches placidly as the Smiling Man is enveloped in a mass of hair that tears him into pieces.

Rin Chupeco

#24. The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.

Quentin Tarantino

#25. Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

Melanie Laurent

#26. 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.

Quentin Tarantino

#27. Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#28. My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that.

Stewart Francis

#29. 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.

Quentin Tarantino

#30. Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

Vanessa Ferlito

#31. 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

#32. I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Park Chan-wook

#33. You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#34. Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.

Chris Pine