417 Quotes by Quentin Tarantino

Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they’re kind of pastoral.

I really become the characters when I’m writing them. I’ll become one or two of them more than others, I’m consistent that way.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.

It’s a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody’s arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

When I’m writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I’m doing it, as I’m writing it.

If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn’t make the movie any better, just as if it’s ignored that doesn’t make the movie any worse.

I’m not a huge big fan of music video.

To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you’re writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can’t lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.