Top 35 Quentin Tarantino Quotes

I’m probably only going to make 10 movies, so I’m already planning on what I’m going to do after that. That’s why I’m counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

I look at ‘Death Proof’ and realize I had too much time.

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.

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

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

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 have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I’m OK with it. I’m not OK with it in other places, but if the government’s going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.

I steal from every movie ever made.

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.

My movies are painfully personal, but I’m never trying to let you know how personal they are. It’s my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. ‘Kill Bill’ is a very personal movie.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.

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

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.

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

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I’ve never seen before.

I don’t believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

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 am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ is not really my thing, but I kind of loved 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.

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.

I don’t think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

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.’

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.

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They’re estranged, and I’ve been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

I’m probably only going to make 10 movies, so I’m already planning on what I’m going to do after that. That’s why I’m counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

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.