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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. "

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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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" If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. "

" I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea. "

" 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 just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. "

" 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. "

" I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can. "

Quentin Tarantino

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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'? "

" I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. "

" 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. "

" I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next. "

Quentin Tarantino

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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. "

" 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've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. "

" I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. "

" Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. "

" 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 want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. "

" Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. "

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

Quentin Tarantino

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Influence

" I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. "

" 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. "