Quentin Tarantino Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Truth, Writing, Character

  "The Quentin Tarantino race debate isn't black and white" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2015.

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

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Stuff, Filmmaker

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

• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Writing, Hands

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

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Heart, Thinking

  "Quentin Tarantino - The "Inglourious Basterds" Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Thinking, Way

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

• 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 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Hands, Brain

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

• You can't write poetry on the computer.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Inspirational, Writing, Poetry

• I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Notebook, Writing, Hands

  Source: allwomenstalk.com

• I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Editing, Lasts

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

• In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time when we weren't politically correct, at all, and we all wince at moments when we look to the past and see that. I don't really know what the answer is, as far as that is concerned. However, me, as an artist, I don't really think about it, at all. It actually is not my job to think about that, especially in terms of me, as a writer, but also as a filmmaker. I'm not worried about the filmmaking part because, if I'm writing it, that's what I'm going to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Past

  Source: collider.com

• You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I'm writing the script, I'm not thinking about the viewer watching the movie. I'm thinking about the reader reading the script.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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

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

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Novel, Screenplays

• I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

• I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

• 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.

• I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Thinking, Way

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

• I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Character, Two

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Character

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Thinking, Perspective

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

• To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Lying, Writing, Character

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

• When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the page. That's all well and good, but it is going to be a limited perspective at that point and time. Occasionally, what I write might read really well initially, but then you change your mind while hunting for locations when you discover settings which offer even better opportunities for drama or dramatic staging.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Drama, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Class, Ideas

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

• One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Voice, Important

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

• One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Block, Writing, Character

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

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