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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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" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

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Faith

" 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. "

" Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. "

Quentin Tarantino

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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. "

" 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. "

" I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'? "

" Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me. "

" 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. "

" My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. "

Quentin Tarantino

Knowledge

Mom

" 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. "

" If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. "

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

" 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. "

" Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. "

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

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House

" Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. "

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

" I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "

Quentin Tarantino

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" My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available. "

" 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. "

" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "

" Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. "

" I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. "

" Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. "

" I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. "