Quotes By Quentin Tarantino
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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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.
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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.
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If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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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.
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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.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
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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.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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