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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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Quentin Tarantino

Want

See

Chance

" 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

" I steal from every movie ever made. "

" 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. "

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

" All my movies are achingly personal. "

Quentin Tarantino

Personal

Movies

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

Street

Government

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year. "

" 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. "

" When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. "

Quentin Tarantino

Believe

Audience

" 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. "

" '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. "