Quentin Tarantino

It’s my job to look at other people’s humanity and it’s my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings – it’s like a sponge, I take it in.

Quentin Tarantino

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.

Quentin Tarantino

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.

Quentin Tarantino

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.

Quentin Tarantino

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Quentin Tarantino

You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.

Quentin Tarantino

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

Quentin Tarantino

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.

Quentin Tarantino

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

Quentin Tarantino

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.

Quentin Tarantino