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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. "
Quentin Tarantino
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" I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. "
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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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" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I steal from every movie ever made. "
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" 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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" 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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" To me, America is just another market. "
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Market
Another
" 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
" 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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God
Always
Time
" To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. "
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Need
Paper
" I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. "
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True
Romance
" 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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" 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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Now
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" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Want
Die
Down
" I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "
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Spaghetti
Am
Everything
" Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. "
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Way
Pet
Personality
" I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. "
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American
Art
Cinema
" 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. "
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Love
Live
Fun
" I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything. "
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Who
Remember
" 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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Business
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" 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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Film
Most
" L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet. "
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You
Big
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" I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. "
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Who
Himself
Myself
" 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
" 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
" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "
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Most
Watch
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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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