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

Quentin Tarantino

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" I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. "

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

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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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" 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'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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" If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" To me, America is just another market. "

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" If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. "

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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 had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.' "

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" Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. "

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

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

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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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" I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. "

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" CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. "

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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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