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- Nov 07, 2020
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
- Complete Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
- Beatty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
- Existence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a historian in my own mind.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
- Secrets
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
- Nov 07, 2020
All my movies are achingly personal.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chuckle
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
- Cause
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I steal from every movie ever made.
- Fun Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Another
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, America is just another market.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
- Good Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020