Quentin Tarantino Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Hard Times, Winning, People

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

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• 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.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Directors, Lists

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• I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out.

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  Song, Play, Use

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• 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

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

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  Jobs, Nice, Party

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• 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.

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  Home, Tape, Soundtracks

  "Kill Bill: Volume 1". Interview with Michaela Latham, www.bbc.co.uk. October 28, 2014.

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• If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

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  Hurt, Trying, Pages

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

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• 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.

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  Drama, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Character

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

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

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  Writing, People, Break

  "Quentin Tarantino’s Classic Quotes" by Justin Kroll, variety.com. October 21, 2009.

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• 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

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• Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

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  Movie, Lucky, Actors

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

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• 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.

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  Fun, Anime, Want

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• Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Quality, Violence, Spaghetti

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• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

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  Cutting, Blood, Hands

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• To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."

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  Kings, Mean, America

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

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• When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won’t allow their characters to go down those roads... I’ve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I’ll follow them.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Character, Down And

  "Quentin Tarantino Talks Inglourious Basterds - RT Interview". Interview with Henri Sordeau, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. August 11, 2009.

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• Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

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  Jobs, Character, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical about it. I don't ever deal with the subtext because I just know it's there so I don't have to deal with it. I just keep it about the scenario. I keep it on the surface, on my concerns. And one of the fun things is is when I'm done with everything, like now, for instance.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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

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• When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

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  Jobs, Writing, Cinema

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• It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, People, Humanity

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

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  Dog, Breathing, Rooms

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• All my movies are achingly personal.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie

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• I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Trying, Theme, Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Believe, Add, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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