Quotes by Quentin Tarantino
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
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.
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.
I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
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.
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
I loved the idea of the fact that the way, like I said, they colored outside of the lines. You know, there was rules that they didn't have to follow. And you got -you got - you could get more of a sensational thrill, all right, with some of these exploitation movies or art films, or you could get something you wouldn't see at the normal cineplex.
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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.