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" I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "
Quentin Tarantino
Kind
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" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "
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Write
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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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" 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'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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" 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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Game
I Can
Games
" 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. "
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Hotel
Kind
" I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. "
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Who
Himself
Myself
" I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything. "
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Spell
Who
Remember
" 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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Morning
Marathon
Horror
" Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. "
Quentin Tarantino
Not Interested
Interest
School
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Want
See
Chance
" When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. "
Quentin Tarantino
Get
Doing
Something
" 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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Standard
Red
Water
" Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. "
Quentin Tarantino
Digital
Together
Television
" I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. "
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Movies
Well
Never
" 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
" If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. "
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Only
Critic
Thing
" If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. "
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Movies
You
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'm a historian in my own mind. "
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My Own
Own
Mind
" 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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Me
Believe
Audience
" 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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Need
Feel
Think
" I steal from every movie ever made. "
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Steal
Ever
Every
" 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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My Life
Remember
Time
" When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' "
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People
School
Film
" I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "
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Thought
Movie
Hollywood
" 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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Thought
Professional
Home
" 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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Movies
End
Customer