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" I steal from every movie ever made. "
Quentin Tarantino
Steal
Ever
Every
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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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" I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. "
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" I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. "
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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 don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo. "
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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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" 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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Knowledge
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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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School
" 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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" 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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Real
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" 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. "
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Hotel
Kind
" 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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God
Always
Time
" 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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You
Big
Different
" 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. "
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None
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" I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie. "
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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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Going
Parents
Said
" 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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Go
Good
House
" 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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Digital
Together
Television
" Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. "
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Money
Film
" 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. "
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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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" 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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Actor
Dialogue
" 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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Want
Die
Down
" As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. "
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Minute
Check
Start
" 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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Love
Live
Fun
" 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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Planning
Movies
Stop
" 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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End
Customer
" 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. "
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Feel
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" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "
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Watch
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