Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

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

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

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

The good ideas will survive.

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

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

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

Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.

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

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.

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

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

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

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.

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.

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.

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. 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 vengeance upon thee.

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