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" As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. "
Quentin Tarantino
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" I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre. "
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" I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "
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" In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet. "
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" Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece. "
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" '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. "
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" 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. "
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" The good ideas will survive. "
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" 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. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. "
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" I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good. "
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" When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies. "
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" I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. "
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" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "
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" 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.' "
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" Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. "
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" All my movies are achingly personal. "
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" My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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