Quentin Tarantino quotes

Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor, known for his distinctive storytelling and stylized violence. His films often blend genres and feature sharp dialogue and pop culture references. He has become one of the most influential filmmakers in modern cinema. Here are 80 of his quotes:

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

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

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

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To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

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

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Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.

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Sure, Kill Bills a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

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To me, America is just another market.

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

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

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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

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I steal from every movie ever made.

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

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The good ideas will survive.

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

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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

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Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I'm going back, and suddenly there is this tension. I just walk down the street, we were just on the way. And she thinks I'm a rapist. And now I feel guilty, even though I'm a damn poor did not.

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

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

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Watch the movie closely, and you'll see how personal it is. Here's a film in which cinema brings down the Nazi regime, metaphorically and literally. What could possibly be better than that? In this story, cinema changes the world, and I fucking love that idea!

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