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" I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. "
Quentin Tarantino
Who
Himself
Myself
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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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Planning
Movies
Stop
" 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer. "
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Saying
Say
Political
" 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
" If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. "
Quentin Tarantino
Movies
You
Love
" I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. "
Quentin Tarantino
Look
Realize
Too Much
" Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. "
Quentin Tarantino
Not Interested
Interest
School
" To me, America is just another market. "
Quentin Tarantino
Just
Market
Another
" I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "
Quentin Tarantino
Thought
Movie
Hollywood
" Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself. "
Quentin Tarantino
Truth
Right
Dogs
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Think
People
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
Like
Doing
" My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. "
Quentin Tarantino
Going
Parents
Said
" I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. "
Quentin Tarantino
Work
Warren
Wanted
" Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. "
Quentin Tarantino
School
Money
Film
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
More
Character
Trying
" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "
Quentin Tarantino
Most
Watch
Violence
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Need
Feel
Think
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Art
Family
Together
" 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
Me
Street
Government
" I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. "
Quentin Tarantino
Next
Language
Movie
" 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
" If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. "
Quentin Tarantino
Writing
Myself
Novels
" 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
Never
Happy
Think
" 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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Get
Important
Faith
" I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. "
Quentin Tarantino
Expectations
You
Away
" I'm a historian in my own mind. "
Quentin Tarantino
My Own
Own
Mind
" Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. "
Quentin Tarantino
Me
Spaghetti
Influence
" Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. "
Quentin Tarantino
Way
Pet
Personality
" All my movies are achingly personal. "
Quentin Tarantino
Personal
Movies
" If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. "
Quentin Tarantino
Only
Critic
Thing