Iconography Quote by Quentin Tarantino Download Open image “I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.” — Quentin Tarantino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Iconography Spaghetti Spaghetti western Trying War War of the worlds Western World World war World war i World war ii
I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just be an interesting way to tackle it. Just even the way that the spaghetti westerns tackled the history of the Old West, I thought it could be a neat thing to do that with World War II, but… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My influences have been mainly Californian and Mediterranean music, so I guess you could call it spaghetti western. — Jack Savoretti Copy Share Image
I loved spaghetti westerns but besides these pure entertainment movies, there was also something different. — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading… — Bill Mauldin 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 did very early, early on when they were trying to, you know, get Germany into the war, whether it be anti-Semitic movies like "Jud Suss," or "The Eternal Jew," or movies made against the Polish to… — 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 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
“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise its crumbs… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
To speak plainly and truthfully about the state of our world - to say, for instance, that the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish - is antithetical to tolerance as moderates currently conceive it. But we can no longer afford the luxury of such political correctness. We must finally recognize the price we are paying to… — Sam Harris Copy Share
History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share
I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just be an interesting way to tackle it. Just even the way that the spaghetti westerns tackled the history of the Old West, I thought it could be a neat thing to do that with World War II, but… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share
People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share
Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were experts in… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows,… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
Lorenzo de' Medici seeks highly skilled, aesthetically oriented individual to conceive and implement several major public projects. You are a generalist with sound training… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“My recommendation instead, however, is that we do not surrender questions of value, whether absolute matters of truth, goodness, and beauty or relative judgment of more or less truth, goodness, and beauty. With those questions to the fore, in fact, we can interrogate various other traditions and truly learn something that can improve our own. Perhaps the Presbyterians really do… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share
