I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
When I’m writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I’m doing it, as I’m writing it. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first. – Quentin Tarantino
I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer. – Quentin Tarantino
If I wasn’t a film-maker, I’d be a film critic. It’s the only thing I’d be qualified to do. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
I will never do ‘Pulp Fiction 2,’ but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study. – Quentin Tarantino
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. – Quentin Tarantino
I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I’ve always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla’s role in Tokyo, where he’s always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again – wouldn’t Godzilla become God? It would be called ‘Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.’ – Quentin Tarantino
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 what the hell am I doing? So if I’m writing ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ and I’m in love with a girl and we break up, that’s going to find its way into the piece. – Quentin Tarantino
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. – Quentin Tarantino
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the ’70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They’re really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over. – Quentin Tarantino
I don’t really know if I’m writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on ‘American Horror Story’ is a little bit more my cup of tea. – Quentin Tarantino
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It’ll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. – Quentin Tarantino
Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I’d done ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ and I was very beside myself. – Quentin Tarantino
In the ’50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they’re not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line. – Quentin Tarantino
