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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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. "
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" I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. "
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" L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet. "
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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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" 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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" Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. "
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" There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it. "
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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 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 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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