Top 293 Quotes & Sayings by Quentin Tarantino - Page 2

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.'

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.

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.

I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?

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.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

To me, America is just another market.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

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.

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.

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.

I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'

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

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 I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.

I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.

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

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

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

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

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

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.

The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

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

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

Violence is fun, man.