Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most… — 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
To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is… — 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
Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why… — 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 was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of… — 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
My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or while I'm writing it or… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
A thing when I was writing the movie 'The hateful eight' was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important… — 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… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. — 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
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain… — 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
