Quotes from Quentin Tarantino

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know.

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'm a historian in my own mind.

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.

Violence is fun, man.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

I steal from every movie ever made.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.

"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

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.

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.

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