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" Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. "
Quentin Tarantino
Actor
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" I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that. "
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" I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can. "
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" I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. "
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" I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "
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" Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know. "
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" I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. "
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" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "
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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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" I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. "
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" When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' "
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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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" I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another. "
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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 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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" If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year. "
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" I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "
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