Quentin Tarantino

L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

Quentin Tarantino

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.

Quentin Tarantino

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

My movies are painfully personal, but I’m never trying to let you know how personal they are. It’s my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. ‘Kill Bill’ is a very personal movie.

Quentin Tarantino

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

Quentin Tarantino

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.

Quentin Tarantino

None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar ’cause I don’t do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.

Quentin Tarantino

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.

Quentin Tarantino

One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

Quentin Tarantino

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

Quentin Tarantino