Quotes By Quentin Tarantino

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.

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

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

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

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.

To me, America is just another market.

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

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

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

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.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

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.

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.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm a historian in my own mind.

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

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

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

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.