My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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 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'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 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
I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each… — 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
I felt no obligation to bow to any 21st Century political correctness. What I did feel an obligation to do was to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I shot the way I wanted to shoot [in The Hateful Eight]. The only real disadvantage I felt at the time, but… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 never gets… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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 Image
'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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 Image
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it? — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
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