Quotes Tarantino Films Quotes

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I didnt go to film school, i went to films ~ Quentin Tarantino

What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

There are two ways: my way and the highway. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I'm an American, our names don't mean shit. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I loved the idea of the fact that the way, like I said, they colored outside of the lines. You know, there was rules that they didn't have to follow. And you got -you got - you could get more of a sensational thrill, all right, with some of these exploitation movies or art films, or you could get something you wouldn't see at the normal cineplex. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares. ~ Tina Fey

A lot of people love Tarantino's films because they're spectacular, they're beautiful, they're wonderful. He hires the best group of artists - not only actors, but everyone around: best photographers, best set designers, best production designers, costume designers. A lot of people love his films because they're bloody, they're gory, they're savage. But very few people see that he's a very political director. ~ Demian Bichir

Jules Winnfield: "ENGLISH, MOTHER FUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!?"

Samuel L. Jackson ~ Quentin Tarantino

I'm a historian in my own mind. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I steal from every movie ever made. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. ~ Quentin Tarantino

The same light SHINES from the case. Pumpkin's expression goes to amazement. Honey Bunny across the room, can't see shit ~ Quentin Tarantino

Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention. ~ Quentin Tarantino

You can't write poetry on the computer. ~ Quentin Tarantino

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it. ~ Quentin Tarantino

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I've never considered myself a writer writing stuff to sell, but as a director who writes stuff for himself to direct. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. ~ Quentin Tarantino

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. ~ Quentin Tarantino

All my movies are achingly personal. ~ Quentin Tarantino

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board. ~ 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've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing. ~ Quentin Tarantino

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart. ~ Quentin Tarantino

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

Ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism. ~ Quentin Tarantino

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. ~ David Foster Wallace

Violence is fun, man. ~ 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 look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. ~ Quentin Tarantino

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. ~ Quentin Tarantino

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet. ~ Quentin Tarantino

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. ~ 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

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence. ~ Quentin Tarantino

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies. ~ Quentin Tarantino

To me, torture would be watching sports on television. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino and Jackson is like Scorsese and DeNiro, and their silent communication. ~ Walton Goggins

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

Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Besides, even if you went all the way, what would you be? Feather-weight champion of the world. Who gives a shit? I doubt you can even get a credit card based on that.
Marsellus Wallace ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Follow your dreams, not the crowd. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it. ~ Haile Gerima

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide. ~ Quentin Tarantino

The good ideas will survive. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films. ~ Alexander Payne

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. ~ Quentin Tarantino

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies. ~ 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

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something. ~ Quentin Tarantino

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

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

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

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing. ~ Quentin Tarantino

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it? ~ Quentin Tarantino

Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others. ~ Mensah Oteh

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. ~ Quentin Tarantino

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

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

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves. ~ 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

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. ~ Quentin Tarantino