Quotes By Quentin Tarantino

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

To me, America is just another market.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

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.