Quentin Tarantino Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  Quentin Tarantino

  School, People, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Weekend, Unimportant Things

• I didnt go to film school, i went to films

  Quentin Tarantino

  School, Film, Film School

• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Song, Writing

• I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Passion, People, Trying

• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Kill Bill, Actors

  "Tarantino's New Mandarin Movie". WENN, www.imdb.com.

• I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of getting immersed in his world. Towards the end of the Inglourious Basterds press tour I was in Japan. Spaghetti Westerns are really popular there, so I picked up a bunch of soundtracks and spent my day off listening to all these scores. And all of a sudden the opening scene just came to me.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Book, Writing, Django

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 24, 2012.

• You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Sex, Mean

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Cheer, Django, Triumph

• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Ideas, Way

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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

  Quentin Tarantino

  Film Critics, Makers, Qualified

• I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Believe, Add, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Growing Up, Men, Blow

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Bird, Criticism, Would Be

• If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Winning, Awards, Ignored

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Film Critics, Would Be, Facts

  "Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Falling In Love, Smartphones, Ideas

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

• Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Dog, Breathing, Rooms

• Oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green Leaves of Summer" as being "The Alamo" theme. Oddly enough, I grew up watching kung fu movies. They would use the theme "Green Leaves of Summer" in a lot of needle drops in kung fu movies a lot. So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Li movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Use, Green

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

• What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Children, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Violence, Temperature, Pressure

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I lived right on the borderline of a black neighborhood. So I could go into the black area and then there'd be these ghetto theaters that you could actually see the new kung fu movie or the new blaxploitation movie or the new horror film or whatever. And then there was also, if you went just a little further away, there was actually a little art house cinema. So I could actually see, you know, French movies or Italian movies, when they came out.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Ghetto, Italian

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

• If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Real, Nice, Marijuana

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I remember when it was reported that I was going to do the film in this format, people were actually speculating, and I guess I understand it. They were like, "Yeah, okay, that all sounds really great, but why would he do it for a thing that's so set bound?" That's not very profound thinking when it comes to 65mm. It's not just for shooting travelogues, mountain scenery and nature.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, People, Profound

  Source: collider.com

• I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Blood, Feuds

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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