Quotes By Quentin Tarantino

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

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

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

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

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

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

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

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

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

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

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

I steal from every movie ever made.

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

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

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

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.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

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.