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" If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. "
Quentin Tarantino
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.' "
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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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" 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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" To me, America is just another market. "
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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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" The good ideas will survive. "
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" 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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" 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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" I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "
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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 think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good. "
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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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" It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. "
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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. "
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" 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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