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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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" 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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Red

Water

" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "

" 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. "

" I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. "

" When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study. "

" I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. "

Quentin Tarantino

Language

Movie

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. "

" Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. "

Quentin Tarantino

Spaghetti

Influence

" My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. "

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

Job

Know

" 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. "

" 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

Street

Government

" 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. "

" When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies. "

" L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet. "

" 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. "

" I steal from every movie ever made. "

" The good ideas will survive. "

" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

Religion

God

" 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'? "

" 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. "

" 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

Doing