Quentin Tarantino

Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the ’80s.

Quentin Tarantino

Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I’m going back, and suddenly there is this tension. I just walk down the street, we were just on the way. And she thinks I’m a rapist. And now I feel guilty, even though I’m a damn poor did not.

Quentin Tarantino

But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

Quentin Tarantino

But the idea of using the Apache resistance, one, it works effective to actually get German soldiers to think of Jews that way. You know, and they’re not just any Jews. They’re the American Jews. They’re Jews with entitlement.

Quentin Tarantino

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.

Quentin Tarantino

Critics don’t want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That’s good for criticism.

Quentin Tarantino

Don’t you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That’s when you know you’ve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f*** up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Quentin Tarantino

Even Christoph Waltz’s character, Colonel Landa in ‘Inglourious Basterds’, I never judged him.

Quentin Tarantino

Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that’s not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.

Quentin Tarantino

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.

Quentin Tarantino