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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. "
Quentin Tarantino
Saw
Way
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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 was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "
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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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" 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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" Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. "
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" Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. "
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" I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "
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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 am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "
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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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Believe
Audience
" If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. "
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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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Parents
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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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" 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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" 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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Interest
School
" 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'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 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'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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" A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. "
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" 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. "
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Family
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" I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. "
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" Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. "
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Money
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