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" I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. "
Quentin Tarantino
Strengths
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" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "
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" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. "
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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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" When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study. "
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" I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. "
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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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" I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director. "
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" The good ideas will survive. "
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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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" 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 love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. "
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" A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. "
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Saying
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" I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. "
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" I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "
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" There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it. "
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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 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. "
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" To me, America is just another market. "
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" If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. "
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" 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. "
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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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