Quotes by Quentin Tarantino

About Quentin Tarantino:

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films are characterized by non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter, and an aestheticization of violence, as well as features of neo-noir film.
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Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or... Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!

Quentin Tarantino

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.

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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

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You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? Giggling like a bunch of young broads in a school yard. Well, let me tell you a joke: Five guys sitting in a bull pen, San Quentin. Wondering how the fuck they got there. What'd we do wrong?...

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I steal from every movie ever made.

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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

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

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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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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.

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

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I'm a historian in my own mind.

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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

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

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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.

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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

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Author Bio

  • NameQuentin Tarantino
  • DescriptionAmerican film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor
  • BornMarch 27, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Film Director; Film Producer; Film Actor; Writer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Legion Of Honour