Quotes from Quentin Tarantino

I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'

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.

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that.

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

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

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

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

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.

'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer.

One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available.

I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

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

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.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

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

I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.