Quotes By Quentin Tarantino

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

All my movies are achingly personal.

The good ideas will survive.

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

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

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

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

I steal from every movie ever made.

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

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

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

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