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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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" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

Movies

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

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

" 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 always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go. "

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

" I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. "

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

" I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. "

" 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.' "

" All my movies are achingly personal. "

Quentin Tarantino

Personal

Movies

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

Quentin Tarantino

Spaghetti

Influence

" To me, America is just another market. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

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

" I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. "

Quentin Tarantino

Language

Movie

" 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

Good

House

" 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. "

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

" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "

" I steal from every movie ever made. "

" I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. "

" Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. "

" 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. "