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" If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. "
Quentin Tarantino
Because
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" My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. "
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" 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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" 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'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 want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. "
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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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" My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. "
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Knowledge
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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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Happy
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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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" Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. "
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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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Religion
Me
God
" To me, America is just another market. "
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Market
Another
" 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
" 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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Weather
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" I'm a historian in my own mind. "
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Own
Mind
" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "
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Novelist
Need
Paper
" I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. "
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Watch
Fiction
Hard
" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "
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Most
Watch
Violence
" 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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Faith
" 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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None
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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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Saying
Truth
" I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "
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Everything
" I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another. "
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Leaving
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" To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence. "
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