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

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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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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" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. "

Quentin Tarantino

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

Quentin Tarantino

" I steal from every movie ever made. "

Quentin Tarantino

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

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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'? "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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.' "

Quentin Tarantino

" If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. "

Quentin Tarantino

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

Quentin Tarantino

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

Quentin Tarantino

" I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. "

Quentin Tarantino

" I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a chance to play my characters and see what happens from that. "

Quentin Tarantino

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

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

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

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want. Because, you know, once you open up your candy store again, you're open for business. And you have to be responsible. You have to be available. "

Quentin Tarantino

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

" All my movies are achingly personal. "

Quentin Tarantino