Quotes from Quentin Tarantino

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

A dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.

What was it about the I'll kill the bitch guy that cracked our audience up so much? Simple, everyone in the theatre had seen that guy before. I had seen that guy. And when we stepped outside the theatre into the Scottsdale shopping center where the Carson Twin Cinema was located, we might see that guy again. But what really cracked us up was we had never seen that guy in a Hollywood movie.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go home and have a heart attack.

Pride only hurts, it never helps.

Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to.

But that, little lady, is why they call him "The Hangman". When the handbill says DEAD OR ALIVE, the rest of us shoot ya' in the back from up on top of a perch somewhere, bring ya' in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth The Hangman catches ya', you don't die by a bullet in the back. When the Hangman catches you... you hang.

If you're countin' on suprisin' me Daisy, don't count on it.

Shit, you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

All my movies are achingly personal.

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

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

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

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.

Sure, Kill Bill is 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.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

I'm not a huge big fan of music video.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.