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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. "

Quentin Tarantino

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" I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.' "

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "

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" I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. "

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

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" 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer. "

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" I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.' "

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

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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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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