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" None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them. "

Quentin Tarantino

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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 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 steal from every movie ever made. "

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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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" I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'? "

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

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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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" In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line. "

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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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" I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. "

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

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" Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. "

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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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" To me, America is just another market. "

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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 think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good. "

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

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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 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. "

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