Top 160 Quentin Tarantino Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’”

— Quentin Tarantino

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2. “Violence is fun, man.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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3. “I didn’t go to film school, I went to films.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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4. “I steal from every movie ever made.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

6. “If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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7. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

8. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

9. “I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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10. “I’ve always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that’s like my last draft of the screenplay.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

12. “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!”

— Quentin Tarantino

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13. “Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.”

— Quentin Tarantino

14. “Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.”

— Quentin Tarantino

15. “Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.”

— Quentin Tarantino

16. “I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them.”

— Quentin Tarantino

17. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

18. “The good ideas will survive.”

— Quentin Tarantino

19. “I’m a historian in my own mind.”

— Quentin Tarantino

20. “Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.”

— Quentin Tarantino

21. “I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.”

— Quentin Tarantino

22. “I’ll write for a while and then I’ll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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24. “I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.”

— Quentin Tarantino

25. “I’m not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I’m gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it’d almost be okay because I did it. It’s there on the page.”

— Quentin Tarantino

26. “I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.”

— Quentin Tarantino

27. “A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.”

— Quentin Tarantino

28. “There’s only one list that’s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d’Or. It’s the list of directors who didn’t.”

— Quentin Tarantino

29. “There are two ways: my way and the highway.”

— Quentin Tarantino

30. “Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.”

— Quentin Tarantino

31. “You can’t write poetry on the computer.”

— Quentin Tarantino

32. “If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.”

— Quentin Tarantino

33. “All my movies are achingly personal.”

— Quentin Tarantino

34. “I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.”

— Quentin Tarantino

35. “To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.”

— Quentin Tarantino

36. “I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.”

— Quentin Tarantino

37. “There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.”

— Quentin Tarantino

38. “If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn’t be writing screenplays. I’d be writing novels.”

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

— Quentin Tarantino

40. “I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.”

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41. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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42. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

43. “To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you’re writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can’t lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.”

— Quentin Tarantino

44. “I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.”

— Quentin Tarantino

45. “If you’re trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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47. “Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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48. “You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It’s the little differences.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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49. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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50. “I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.”

— Quentin Tarantino