The 80 best phrases of Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is a well-known American actor and director, born in the well-known city of Knoxville during the year 1963.

Some of the films by this famous director have become true cult works over the years. Throughout his professional career, Tarantino has created really interesting films, such as: "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Pulp Fiction" or "Django" and in all of them this artist has demonstrated the great gift that he undoubtedly possesses for directing.

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Phrases and reflections of Quentin Tarantino

We have all seen many films directed by him, the way this director behaves behind the scenes is something that many of you may not know. Below you can discover a collection of Quentin Tarantino's 80 best famous quotes, one of the most loved directors today by the international public.

1. When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them: no, I went to the movies.

Thanks to movies we can learn many things, some of which can be very useful in the future.

2. Good ideas will survive.

Great ideas are always seen as great no matter how much time passes, the genius of people is something truly timeless.

3. My plan is to have a theater in a small town or something and I'll be a manager. I'll be the crazy old man from the movies.

This actor has always been in love with the world of cinema, both in its direction and its distribution.

4. I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life for so long that I can't remember a time when I didn't.

Movies as we see them have always been a part of his life and thanks to viewing a large number of them, Tarantino as a director has managed to have a truly unique point of view.

5. I've always thought my soundtracks work pretty well, because they're basically the professional equivalent of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

Music is a completely fundamental factor in his films, because thanks to it we are able to better introduce ourselves into the plot.

6. When I'm making a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's about the movie. I don't have a wife, I don't have a child, nothing can stand in my way... I have made the decision, until now, to follow this path alone. Because this is my moment. This is my time to make movies.

As we can see, directing is not just a job for him, it is rather his great passion.

7. Theft from every movie ever made.

Films by other directors can inspire us to create our own film, a very clever trick that he has used countless times.

8. Violence is one of the funniest things to watch.

Violence is always something that draws the viewer's attention, which is why there are currently so many movies that deal with it.

9. When I write something, I try not to be analytical about it while I'm writing it, while I'm writing it.

If we analyze everything we write too much, we can fall into overcorrection, we should not be obsessed with a certain perfection that may not exist.

10. To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a sheet of paper.

The writer can develop his art with very few instruments, a sheet of paper and something that allows us to write will be totally sufficient.

11. For 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 that I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

After having directed a large number of successful films, this director has found a certain way of working, which in his opinion is much more efficient.

12. To me, the United States is just another market.

The American public has certain particular characteristics, a specific way of thinking that achieves great harmony with the cinema of this famous director.

13. Reservoir Dogs is a small movie, and part of the charm of it was that it was a small movie. He'd probably do it for $3 million now so he'd have more breathing room.

Great movies don't have to be blockbusters, a successful script can really be our key to success.

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

Western cinema has always enchanted Tarantino, not in vain is something that we can easily see reflected in some of his productions.

15. Something held me back a bit at school. Anything he doesn't interest me, I can't even feign interest.

The mind of this celebrity is unable to focus on everything that does not matter to him, a curious characteristic that almost all great geniuses tend to have in common.

16. My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kinds of movies when I was a kid.

From a very early age, he never stopped consuming a large number of movies, thus acquiring all the information that he would later use in his professional life.

17. Novelists have always had complete freedom to tell their story in the way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Just like a writer does, he looks for a way to express himself through directing, those films that are under his command must come out just as he has imagined them.

18. My parents said: Oh, he will be a director one day. I wanted to be an actor.

In his facet as an actor, he has also collaborated in a large number of films, but it has undoubtedly been in the direction where he has managed to stand out above all others.

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

The great writers have always been novelists, as we all know screenwriters very rarely manage to achieve great notoriety due to their work.

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

Money is for him a recognition of his work, a useful tool that allows him to continue working in the future.

21. Movies aren't about the opening weekend, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant moment in a movie's life.

The films once released are consumed by the public despite the passing of the years and some of them manage to become authentic classics, long after their premiere.

22. It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut off someone's arm and have red water hoses to the veins, spraying blood everywhere.

Gore has always been something that he has really loved, a genre that was little known in the past that this director has undoubtedly managed to exploit to the fullest.

23. I have always thought that John Travolta is one of the best movie stars that Hollywood has ever produced.

Travolta and Tarantino together created one of the greatest movies of all time, an excellent cinematographic work called "Pulp Fiction."

24. He always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

The famous film titled Kill Bill was originally intended for this famous actor, but in the end the viewers had to settle for the also well-known David Carradine.

25. I am very happy with the way I write. I think I do well.

Writing was always something he was passionate about, otherwise we would never have enjoyed most of his films.

26. I have always considered myself a filmmaker who writes things for himself.

The works of this famous filmmaker go through a large number of filters, but the most relevant will always be the one that he himself produces.

27. I'm not a Hollywood bastard because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apology.

Hollywood is a factory for creating movies that has its admirers and its detractors. It will depend on our personal taste of each one of us, what opinion we have about those films that are produced there.

28. I am a historian in my own mind.

History can be our great source of inspiration, this is something that all directors know very well and that Tarantino has always kept in mind.

29. I'm a big vinyl collector, I have a recording room in my house, and I've always had a huge collection of soundtrack albums. So what I do, while writing a movie, is I read all those songs, trying to find good fight songs, or good pieces of music to put in the movie.

Music has played a fundamental role in his life, a hobby that we can see reflected in all his films.

30. I want to exceed expectations. I want to make you fly.

As a director, Tarantino always wants to succeed, a laudable ambition which has led him to the height of Hollywood stardom.

31. He wasn't trying to outdo "Pulp Fiction" with "Jackie Brown." I wanted to go under and make a more modest character study movie.

Work has been a fundamental factor in this director's career, without it he would never have succeeded in his profession.

32. I loved the story because for me, the story was like watching a movie.

History gives us the best storylines and some periods of it seem to have been taken directly from a fairy tale.

33. I want to make a movie in Mandarin language. It will probably be the next movie I make after the next one.

Foreign cultures have always interested her, something that we can see reflected in many of his films.

34. I want to have fun doing anime and I love anime, but I can't storyboard because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

Drawing has never been one of his strengths, for this reason he has never been able to venture into this type of cinema in particular.

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

Pulp Fiction was a movie that undoubtedly changed cinema forever, some of its most famous scenes are known worldwide.

36. I couldn't spell anything. He didn't remember anything, but he could go to the movies and he knew who was starring, who was directing, everything.

As we can see, cinema has always been his great passion, a hobby that he started when he was just a child.

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

Elmore Leonard was a famous American writer and screenwriter. As we discover in this quote, some of his works were truly inspiring for Tarantino.

38. I like it when someone tells me a story, and I really feel like it's becoming a lost art in American cinema.

Directors should try to tell a certain story with their films, a way of working that many directors currently do not use.

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

Horror movies have a large number of fans and as we can see, this director is one of them.

40. Everything I learned as an actor, I basically transferred to writing.

The experiences we live can help us in many different areas, since certain techniques can be used in any type of trade.

41. In fact, I think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

His way of narrating is undoubtedly very peculiar, it is very likely that this director would never have achieved success if he were not for her.

42. A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, “Tell the truth. Reveal some secrets here.”

The best writers are those who manage to excite us with their works, something that most pursue throughout their lives.

43. I was kind of excited to go to jail the first time around and learned some great dialogue.

This director spent 10 days in jail for not paying parking tickets, an interesting experience that would undoubtedly be very useful in his career later.

44. As a viewer, the moment I start to get confused, I walk out of the movie. Emotionally, I am separated.

A film must always be seen from the viewer's point of view, a certain perspective that is usually lost when he works as a director.

45. Dogs have personality.

Dogs have their own personality and feelings, all animals are actually fully capable of feeling.

46. Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky to be in the place where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a film, I want it to be everything for me; as if he was going to die for it.

After a long career, money is not a problem for him. He currently creates those movies that he would like to see.

47. If he wasn't a filmmaker, he would be a film critic. It's the only thing he would be qualified to do.

The cinema is for this director part of his life, he would never feel calm if he could not work on it.

48. I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the public is this dumb person shorter than me. I am the audience.

The public is the most important factor for the film industry, if filmmakers do not take care of it over time they can end up losing it.

49. I am a lover of genres, from spaghetti westerns to samurai movies.

Although he consumes cinema of all kinds, there are some genres that are undoubtedly his favorites, such as the ones he tells us about in this quote.

50. If there's something magical about the collaborations I have with the actors, it's because I put the character first.

All those actors who collaborate with him are delighted with his personality, not in vain is he one of the most charismatic directors that has ever existed.

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

If we let ourselves be carried away by our passion, in the end success will be something that will inevitably catch up with us.

52. I watch "Death Proof" and realize I have too much time.

Free time can be something that sometimes plays tricks on us, we must work hard if we want to be successful in the future.

53. All my films are painfully personal.

The films he creates always fully identify him, all of his works are for him an intrinsic part of himself.

54. THE. it's so big that if you don't live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

The city of Los Angeles is one of the largest in the United States, currently has a population of about 4 million inhabitants.

55. I can't be interested in video games. They have given me video game players and they just sit there connected to my televisions collecting dust until I eventually unplug them so I can put another DVD player from one region special.

Video games have never been really interesting for him, as we see in this quote, movies have always been his best way to pass the time.

56. I grew up watching a lot of movies. He draws me to this genre and that genre, this kind of story and that kind of story. As I watch movies, I make a version in my head that isn't exactly what I'm seeing: he's taken the things I like and mixed them with things I've never seen before.

Tarantino is a director who loves to innovate, reinventing himself over and over again in each film he creates.

57. 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 looks like an Italian giallo, I'll do it like an Italian giallo.

As we see, inspiration can come from anywhere, even from people who are not in our own country.

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

The movie "Pulp Fiction" was created with the idea that there would be no sequels, a fact that unfortunately we all have to accept.

59. I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that he always wanted to do. The whole idea of ​​Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always fighting these other monsters, saving humanity over and over again, wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under Godzilla's Rule'.

What we can be sure of is that his ideas will never cease to amaze us. His imagination has always been really overflowing.

60. There's my type of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part.

The actors you are looking for for your films must possess certain qualities in particular. Tarantino is a director, who will never allow the wrong actors to play his characters.

61. CGI has completely ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you look at them in the '70s, they were real cars, real metal, real explosions. They are really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew that CGI was going to start taking over.

Today's special effects are almost always created by computer, 90 percent of what we see in a movie can be totally unreal.

62. In the 1950s, the public accepted a level of artifice that they would laugh at in 1966. And the 1978 public would laugh at what the 1966 public said was fine too. The trick is to try to get ahead of that curve, so they're not laughing at his movies 20 years later.

As this director tells us, the trick is to anticipate what will happen in the future. Something that seems very easy to say, but is actually very difficult to carry out.

63. If you go out and watch a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to find a top ten, because you saw a lot of things 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.

The taste for movies is something very particular, because each of us will have our own point of view about what is the best movie we have seen. As the well-known saying goes: for tastes, the colors.

64. I think we spent $60 million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather issues. And I wanted to do it right.

In the cinema, money can be a problem if we know how to manage it, because if a film runs out of funds it will be practically impossible to finish it.

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

Gore has always been a constant in all movies, something that he has always liked a lot to his viewers, but on the other hand, it has also made it totally impossible for him to be able to work with certain great artists.

66. 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' isn't really my thing, but I loved it.

"Grand Budapest Hotel" was a film released in 2014 directed by filmmaker Wes Anderson, a truly fantastic work that, as we can see, delighted this famous director.

67. I don't think you should stay on stage until people beg you to get off. I like the idea of ​​leaving them wanting a little more.

The best movies are those that the viewer does not want to end, if we can make this happen, we can be sure that said movie will be a success.

68. None of my costume designers have been nominated for an Oscar because I don't do period movies that have dance scenes with hundreds of extras.

The wardrobe is something that manages to immerse us in the plot of the film, a totally essential factor if we want our production to be well received by the audience.

69. I liked the idea of ​​creating a new pop culture folk hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think will last a long time. And I think as generations go by and everything, you know, my hope is that it can be a rite of passage for black parents and their children. Like, when are they old enough to see 'Django Unchained'?

Without a doubt, "Django" was a great movie, which if you haven't seen it yet, you can't miss it. A Western in the purest Quentin Tarantino style.

70. To tell you the truth, my favorite Movie Brats director wasn't actually Scorsese. I loved it. But my favorite Movie Brats director was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I did 'Reservoir Dogs,' and he was so out of it.

Brian de Palma was a director who greatly influenced him, for many years he had always dreamed of being able to meet him one day.

71. I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm okay with that. I don't agree with that in other places, but if the government is going to censor me, then I want people to see it in any way I can.

Viewers have always been very interested in all his works, regardless of which country they were in.

72. I'm probably only going to do 10 movies, so I'm already planning 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 write novels, write plays and direct plays.

Writing and theater are things that also interest him to a great extent, a fact that shows us how cinema is not his only great passion.

73. Australian genre movies were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were true genre films, and they dealt, as the Italians did, with genre excess, and that has been an influence on me.

The cinema of some countries has nothing to do with the cinema that is currently created in the United States, but even so, Tarantino has always known how to value the ways that others have of working.

74. I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art cinema and my father is B-movie cinema. They're separate, and I've been trying to reunite them for my entire career to one degree or another.

His parents always tried to make this remarkable director feel influenced by the seventh art, a fact that judging by his professional career, they more than achieved.

75. I had a lot of fun making “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.'

In his career as a director, innovation has always been a constant, he always seeks to give a new twist in his next production.

76. When I make a film, I hope to reinvent the genre a bit. I just do it my way. I make my own Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a film student. It's almost like he's going to my film professorship, and the day I die is the day he graduates me. It is a lifelong study.

All Tarantino films have a special atmosphere. Even if we know that a film is his, as soon as we start watching it we can realize it.

77. I feel like I need to do at least one more western. I think you have to do three westerns to call yourself a western director.

The Western genre has always been very dear to this great director, something that with some of his films, such as the great "Django", he has managed to make it very clear.

78. I actually want to do a stage adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I really like the idea of ​​other actors getting a chance to play my characters and see what happens with that.

The theater has always been one of his favorite arts, because thanks to it the actors can express themselves in a very different way than they would in the cinema.

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

Writing has always been one of his great hobbies, an activity that he will surely practice throughout his life.

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

When a director does not have great funds is when he must show what he is really made of, to make a great film money does not have to be an essential requirement,