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" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Love
Live
Fun
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" I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player. "
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" I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "
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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. "
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" I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. "
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" Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. "
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" I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "
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" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "
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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 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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" Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. "
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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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" I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that. "
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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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Doing
Myself
Love
" 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 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. "
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You
Believe
Leaving
" 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
" 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. "
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Theatre
Crazy
Manager
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Movies
End
Customer
" 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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Life
Film
Most
" The good ideas will survive. "
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Good
Will
Good Ideas
" I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. "
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Expectations
You
Away
" 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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Not Interested
Interest
School
" 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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Professional
Home
" '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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" 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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Student
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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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Ahead
Movies
" 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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Way
Trying
" I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. "
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Look
Realize
Too Much
" 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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