Quentin Tarantino Quotes

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Quentin Tarantino

Profession : Director

Birth : March 27, 1963

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

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

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The good ideas will survive.

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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

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'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

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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.

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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.

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

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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

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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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All my movies are achingly personal.

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

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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.

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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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