Quotes from Quentin Tarantino

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

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.

The good ideas will survive.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

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

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.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?

I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

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

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.

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 don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.

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

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

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

I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.