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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. "
Quentin Tarantino
My Life
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" My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. "
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" I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "
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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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" 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 look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. "
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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 believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. "
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" It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. "
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" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "
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" 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. "
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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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