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" If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. "
Quentin Tarantino
Movies
You
Love
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Myself
Student
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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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More
Character
Trying
" I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. "
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Fiction
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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
" 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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Theatre
Crazy
Manager
" 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
" 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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Said
Ahead
Movies
" 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
" Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. "
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Way
Pet
Personality
" 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 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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Art
Family
Together
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Game
I Can
Games
" If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. "
Quentin Tarantino
Because
About
Character
" 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
" I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "
Quentin Tarantino
Kind
Jail
Time
" 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 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
You
Friends
Fun
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Movies
None
Ball
" 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'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
" 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 always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. "
Quentin Tarantino
Morning
Marathon
Horror
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Planning
Movies
Stop
" Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. "
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School
Money
Film
" The good ideas will survive. "
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Good
Will
Good Ideas
" I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "
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Spaghetti
Am
Everything
" 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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Writing
Hell
Girl
" I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. "
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Next
Language
Movie
" To me, America is just another market. "
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Just
Market
Another
" A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. "
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Tell
Saying
Truth