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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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Morning
Marathon
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" If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. "
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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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" It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. "
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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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" If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. "
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" I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. "
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" I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it. "
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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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" I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything. "
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" 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. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over. "
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" I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that. "
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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'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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" 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 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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" 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 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 am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai 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 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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" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "
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" Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself. "
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" I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea. "
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