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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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" I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. "

" 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. "

" As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. "

" If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. "

" I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. "

" 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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Good

House

" 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. "

" 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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Government

" Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. "

Quentin Tarantino

Religion

God

" 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. "

" The good ideas will survive. "

" I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. "

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True

Romance

" My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie. "

Quentin Tarantino

Job

Know

" I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. "

" If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. "

" A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. "

" Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. "

" 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. "

" 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

Now

Film

" I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a historian in my own mind. "

" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "

" When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' "

" 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. "