417 Quotes by Quentin Tarantino

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

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

I’m not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It’ll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.

I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I’m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I’d probably make it for $3 million now so I’d have more breathing room.

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

I’ll write for a while and then I’ll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.