Quotes by Quentin Tarantino

• 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.
• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
• 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.
• I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
• I'm a historian in my own mind.
• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
• Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
• I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
• 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.
• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
• 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.
• My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
• My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
• 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.
• 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.
• Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
• Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
• The good ideas will survive.
• To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
• To me, America is just another market.
• 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.
• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
• I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
• My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
• Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
• I steal from every movie ever made.
• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
• I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
• I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
• I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
• I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
• I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
• I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
• Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
• As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
• A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
• 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.
• I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.