--- title: "14 Would be Quotes By Quentin Tarantino" description: "14 Would be quotes by Quentin Tarantino. Plus more from Quentin Tarantino and more Would be sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f2/quentin-tarantino-1030_sports_to-me-torture-would-be-watching-sports-o_568366.jpg" --- > [To me, torture would be watching sports on television.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/to-me-torture-would-be-watching-sports-on-television/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f2/quentin-tarantino-1030_sports_to-me-torture-would-be-watching-sports-o_568366.jpg) > [I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-don-t-have-any-bone-to-pick-with-critics-in-fact-if-i-wasn-t-a/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3e/quentin-tarantino-1030_bones_i-don-t-have-any-bone-to-pick-with-criti_1295435.jpg) > [What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/what-the-internet-has-done-is-destroy-film-criticism-i-would-never/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d6/quentin-tarantino-1030_bird_what-the-internet-has-done-is-destroy-fi_2527281.jpg) > [I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-always-knew-i-wanted-to-do-a-western-and-trying-to-think-of-what/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10f/quentin-tarantino-1030_aesthetics_i-always-knew-i-wanted-to-do-a-western-a_1566214.jpg) > [Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/some-of-the-inspirations-i-had-as-far-as-following-that-story-would/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/456/quentin-tarantino-1030_battle_some-of-the-inspirations-i-had-as-far-as_2864561.jpg) > [American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/american-indians-would-you-know-scalp-them-and-desecrate-the-bodies/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/quentin-tarantino-1030_american-indian_american-indians-would-you-know-scalp-th_234669.jpg) > [I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-hate-school-at-that-time-now-little-did-i-know-that-actually-if-i/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/quentin-tarantino-1030_college_i-hate-school-at-that-time-now-little-di_115099.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-don-t-have-any-one-way-to-tell-a-story-i-don-t-have-any-rule-book/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/quentin-tarantino-1030_beginning-middle-and_i-don-t-have-any-one-way-to-tell-a-story_2528314.jpg) > [ A lot of them \[Germaqn actors\] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/a-lot-of-them-germaqn-actors-could-come-in-and-we-could-speak-for-the/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/quentin-tarantino-1030_actors_a-lot-of-them-germaqn-actors-could-come_1275817.jpg) > [The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/the-only-other-animals-that-would-be-in-the-ballpark-to-be-able-to-do/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fd/quentin-tarantino-1030_able_the-only-other-animals-that-would-be-in_2454127.jpg) > [To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/to-call-clive-barker-a-horror-novelist-would-be-like-calling-the/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c13/quentin-tarantino-1030_band_to-call-clive-barker-a-horror-novelist-w_3071237.jpg) > [Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/oddly-enough-most-of-the-books-written-about-the-subject-aren-t-very/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/882/quentin-tarantino-1030_anti-semitic_oddly-enough-most-of-the-books-written-a_45209.jpg) > [It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/it-hit-me-that-an-apache-resistance-would-be-a-wonderful-you-know-it/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba0/quentin-tarantino-1030_able_it-hit-me-that-an-apache-resistance-woul_3002330.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/if-it-s-too-much-for-people-if-audiences-don-t-accept-it-well-i-guess/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdf/quentin-tarantino-1030_accepting_if-it-s-too-much-for-people-if-audiences_1141281.jpg) ## Other authors on Would be ## More by Quentin Tarantino > [CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/cgi-has-fully-ruined-car-crashes-because-how-can-you-be-impressed/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/whatever-s-going-on-with-me-at-the-time-of-writing-is-going-to-find/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/oddly-enough-most-of-the-books-written-about-the-subject-aren-t-very/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [“I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-m-an-american-our-names-don-t-mean-shit/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [I'm a historian in my own mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-m-a-historian-in-my-own-mind/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-hate-school-at-that-time-now-little-did-i-know-that-actually-if-i/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-m-not-writing-novels-the-screenplays-are-my-novels-so-i-m-gonna/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/one-of-the-songs-that-stayed-in-my-head-that-i-really-considered-a/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > ['The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/the-grand-budapest-hotel-is-not-really-my-thing-but-i-kind-of-loved-it/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/i-hope-to-give-you-at-least-15-more-years-of-movies-i-m-not-going-to/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/in-real-life-there-are-no-bad-guys-everybody-just-has-their-own/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/he-musta-thought-it-was-white-boy-day-it-ain-t-white-boy-day-is-it/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/if-you-go-out-and-see-a-lot-of-movies-in-a-given-year-it-s-really/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/when-i-went-to-do-my-big-audition-with-actors-for-mr-blonde-the-thing/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) > [By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/by-the-time-i-was-doing-kill-bill-it-was-so-much-filled-with-prose/) [Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/would-be/quentin-tarantino/#itemlist", "name": "14 Would be Quotes By Quentin Tarantino", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To me, torture would be watching sports on television.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Quentin Tarantino" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/to-me-torture-would-be-watching-sports-on-television/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f2/quentin-tarantino-1030_sports_to-me-torture-would-be-watching-sports-o_568366.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f2/quentin-tarantino-1030_sports_to-me-torture-would-be-watching-sports-o_568366.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f2/quentin-tarantino-1030_sports_to-me-torture-would-be-watching-sports-o_568366.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To me, torture would be watching sports on television.” — Quentin Tarantino", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't have any bone to pick with critics. 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