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" I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. "
Quentin Tarantino
Movies
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" 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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" A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. "
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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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" 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've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "
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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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" 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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" 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
" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "
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Watch
Violence
" Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself. "
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Truth
Right
Dogs
" I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. "
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Like
True
Romance
" I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "
Quentin Tarantino
History
Like
Loved
" 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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More
Now
Film
" I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "
Quentin Tarantino
Kind
Jail
Time
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Me
Street
Government
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Thought
Professional
Home
" 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
" I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. "
Quentin Tarantino
Never
Happy
Think
" Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. "
Quentin Tarantino
Actor
Everything
Learned
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
American
Like
Doing
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Important
Actor
Dialogue
" Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. "
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Me
Spaghetti
Influence
" If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. "
Quentin Tarantino
Writing
Myself
Novels
" My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. "
Quentin Tarantino
Going
Parents
Said
" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "
Quentin Tarantino
Novelist
Need
Paper
" 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
" 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. "
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Writing
American
Cup
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Now
Doing
Start
" 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. "
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Artist
Business
Know
" 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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Die
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