Movie Quotes by Quentin Tarantino

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

— Quentin Tarantino

All my movies are achingly personal.

— Quentin Tarantino

I steal from every movie ever made.

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character…

— 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

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

— 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…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

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

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to…

— Quentin Tarantino

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know,…

— Quentin Tarantino

By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

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

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

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

As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the…

— Quentin Tarantino

Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make…

— Quentin Tarantino

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to…

— 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…

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

— Quentin Tarantino

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino