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" 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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Live

Fun

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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Language

Movie

" 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. "

" To me, America is just another market. "

" 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

Mom

" 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. "

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

" 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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Now

Film

" The good ideas will survive. "

" 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 like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. "

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

" I got into Facebook late, and I think if you get into Facebook late, you tend to use it the right way, as opposed to the people who got into it sooner and friended everybody and now have a thousand friends. I keep it at about 80 or so, and they're all people I know. Just because I do a movie doesn't mean I friend everybody in it. "

" All my movies are achingly personal. "

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Personal

Movies

" As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. "

" I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "

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Everything

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

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

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

" 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. "

" One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available. "

" I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. "