Quentin Tarantino Quotes

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

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 totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

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.

The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.

I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.

I am doing what I'm doing, and if you don't like it, don't go see it.

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

There's only one list that's more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d'Or. It's the list of directors who didn't.

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

All my movies are achingly personal.

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

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

But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny, so I'll just say, 'No Phone Quentin'.

I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.

You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.