Quentin Tarantino

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

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

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

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

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

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.

To me, America is just another market.

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.

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.

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

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

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.

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 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'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.

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 wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

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

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

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

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

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

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.

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.

All my movies are achingly personal.

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.

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

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.

The good ideas will survive.