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" I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. "

Quentin Tarantino

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

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

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

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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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" I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "

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" I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know. "

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" I'm a historian in my own mind. "

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

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" I steal from every movie ever made. "

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" If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. "

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" 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. "

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" I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. "

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" My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. "

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

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" 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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" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

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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 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. "

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" All my movies are achingly personal. "

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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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