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" My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. "

Quentin Tarantino

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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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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" A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. "

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" The good ideas will survive. "

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

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

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

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" 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it. "

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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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" I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "

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

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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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" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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