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" When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' "

Quentin Tarantino

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I steal from every movie ever made. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. "

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

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

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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 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. "

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

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" CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over. "

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

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" I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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" Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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'm a historian in my own mind. "

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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 love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. "

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