If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I am doing what I'm doing, and if you don't like it, don't go see it. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny,… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If it's too much for people, if audiences don't accept it, well I guess that's just the way it is. I'm not… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I've always seen in Westerns it described or it's shown very vaguely, but I wanted this - I want us to show… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then,… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
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… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten,… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
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![“Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was…” quote by Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/quentin-tarantino-1030_big-things_sometimes-things-need-to-get-really-bad_2199848.jpg)
![“I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them…” quote by Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/345/quentin-tarantino-1030_america_i-would-ve-written-this-story-django-if_417673.jpg)
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