Top 160 Quentin Tarantino Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Say ‘auf wiedersehen’ to your nazi balls.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

103. “I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them.”

— Quentin Tarantino

104. “Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they’re kind of pastoral.”

— Quentin Tarantino

105. “I’m not a huge big fan of music video.”

— Quentin Tarantino

106. “I’m very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it’s way into the piece.”

— Quentin Tarantino

107. “Superman didn’t become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he’s Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He’s weak... he’s unsure of himself... he’s a coward. Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race.”

— Quentin Tarantino

108. “I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.”

— Quentin Tarantino

109. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

110. “One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!””

— Quentin Tarantino

111. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

112. “Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

114. “One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.”

— Quentin Tarantino

115. “My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.”

— Quentin Tarantino

116. “I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.”

— Quentin Tarantino

117. “But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.”

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Quentin Tarantino

119. “To me, America is just another market.”

— Quentin Tarantino

120. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

121. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

122. “I’ve always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.”

— Quentin Tarantino

123. “As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.”

— Quentin Tarantino

124. “That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.”

— Quentin Tarantino

125. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

126. “Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.”

— Quentin Tarantino

127. “I hate The Confederate cause. I’ve always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.”

— Quentin Tarantino

128. “A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.”

— Quentin Tarantino

129. “Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it’s always like, they don’t know how to do it.”

— Quentin Tarantino

130. “Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.”

— Quentin Tarantino

131. “My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.”

— Quentin Tarantino

132. “I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.”

— Quentin Tarantino

133. “I’m a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”

— Quentin Tarantino

134. “If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.”

— Quentin Tarantino

135. “I’ve never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can’t stand that crap.”

— Quentin Tarantino

136. “If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.”

— Quentin Tarantino

137. “I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.”

— Quentin Tarantino

138. “Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.”

— Quentin Tarantino

139. “If I’m on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I’m looking for. I’ll sit there and I’ll cry. I think it’s the altitude or something like that.”

— Quentin Tarantino

140. “Keepin’ you at a disadvantage, is a advantage I intend to keep.”

— Quentin Tarantino

141. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

142. “I’ve never considered myself a writer writing stuff to sell, but as a director who writes stuff for himself to direct.”

— Quentin Tarantino

143. “I really become the characters when I’m writing them. I’ll become one or two of them more than others, I’m consistent that way.”

— Quentin Tarantino

144. “I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.”

— Quentin Tarantino

145. “I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.”

— Quentin Tarantino

146. “He’s reading it pretty good, but he’s still reading it from the page, and every once in a while he stumbles over his words.”

— Quentin Tarantino

147. “I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you’re doing.”

— Quentin Tarantino

148. “If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn’t make the movie any better, just as if it’s ignored that doesn’t make the movie any worse.”

— Quentin Tarantino

149. “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.”

— Quentin Tarantino

150. “I look at ‘Death Proof’ and realize I had too much time.”

— Quentin Tarantino