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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. "

Quentin Tarantino

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" 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. "

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" I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. "

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" I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. "

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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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" I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. "

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" I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. "

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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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" I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "

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

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" 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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" I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "

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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 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. "

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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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" As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. "

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" Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. "

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" Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. "

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

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" All my movies are achingly personal. "

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" I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't. "

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" I'm a historian in my own mind. "

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

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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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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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" If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. "

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