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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. "

Quentin Tarantino

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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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" If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year. "

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" 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. "

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

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" CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over. "

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

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

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" All my movies are achingly personal. "

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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'm a historian in my own mind. "

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

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" 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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" I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. "

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" '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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" 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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" I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'? "

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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. "

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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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" 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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" I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "

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

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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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