Top 160 Quentin Tarantino Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Quentin Tarantino

53. “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

54. “When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid’s private school and for the three ex-wives, don’t talk to me about your artistry. It’s their job. It’s not my job. It’s my calling.”

— Quentin Tarantino

55. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

56. “I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

— Quentin Tarantino

57. “He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain’t white boy day, is it?”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

59. “I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn’t actually feel or didn’t believe.”

— Quentin Tarantino

60. “One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It’s your voice that’s important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can’t be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you’re the writer and the director.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

62. “You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.”

— Quentin Tarantino

63. “I won’t even think about acting in a role where I didn’t do a back story for a character.”

— Quentin Tarantino

64. “Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the ’80s.”

— Quentin Tarantino

65. “I am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.”

— Quentin Tarantino

66. “To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.”

— Quentin Tarantino

67. “Critics don’t want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That’s good for criticism.”

— Quentin Tarantino

68. “To me, torture would be watching sports on television.”

— Quentin Tarantino

69. “If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.”

— Quentin Tarantino

70. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

71. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

72. “I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I’m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy.”

— Quentin Tarantino

73. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

75. “I’ve always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.”

— Quentin Tarantino

76. “Sure, and that’s the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would’ve been too much for the big screen because actually it would’ve only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.”

— Quentin Tarantino

77. “I laugh all the time. I’m an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I’m always laughing.”

— Quentin Tarantino

78. “I don’t think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.”

— Quentin Tarantino

79. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

80. “I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

82. “Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that’s not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.”

— Quentin Tarantino

83. “I don’t have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn’t a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.”

— Quentin Tarantino

84. “I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.”

— Quentin Tarantino

85. “I was trying to do like a Spaghetti Western but using World War II iconography.”

— Quentin Tarantino

86. “If I wasn’t a film-maker, I’d be a film critic. It’s the only thing I’d be qualified to do.”

— Quentin Tarantino

87. “I want do a Mandarin language movie. It’ll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.”

— Quentin Tarantino

88. “I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”

— Quentin Tarantino

89. “You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

91. “I am doing what I’m doing, and if you don’t like it, don’t go see it.”

— Quentin Tarantino

92. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

93. “It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

95. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

96. “The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.”

— Quentin Tarantino

97. “I’ve always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.”

— Quentin Tarantino

98. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

99. “Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.”

— Quentin Tarantino

100. “What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.”

— Quentin Tarantino