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" To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence. "

Quentin Tarantino

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" It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" To me, America is just another market. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Quentin Tarantino

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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. "

Quentin Tarantino

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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. "

" Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. "

" I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. "

" 'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer. "

" My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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