Quentin Tarantino Quotes

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

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

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.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

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

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

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.

I steal from every movie ever made.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

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.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.

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.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

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

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

The good ideas will survive.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

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.

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

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

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

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

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

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.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

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

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.

I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.

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

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.

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

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.