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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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Spell
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" To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence. "
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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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" 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 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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" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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Myself
Student
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" 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. "
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American
Art
Cinema
" Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. "
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Everything
Learned
" 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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Art
Family
Together
" 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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Want
Die
Down
" When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' "
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People
School
Film
" None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them. "
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Movies
None
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" 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'? "
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Long
Character
Hero
" Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. "
Quentin Tarantino
Digital
Together
Television
" I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. "
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Like
True
Romance
" As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. "
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Minute
Check
Start
" 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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People
Know
" My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. "
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Going
Parents
Said
" 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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Said
Ahead
Movies
" L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet. "
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You
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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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Planning
Movies
Stop
" 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. "
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Way
Real
Movies
" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "
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Novelist
Need
Paper
" 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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Go
Good
House
" 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. "
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" 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. "
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Hotel
Kind
" I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "
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Loved
" I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. "
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