Quentin Tarantino Quotes – Wisdom from the Master Storyteller

I steal from every single movie ever made.

I believe in America.

Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest.

I’m a big fan of hot sauce… I laugh at the weak!

The good ideas will survive.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

I get ideas from watching bad movies.

I love women, especially the moments when they’re being strong.

I always want my characters to feel real, even if they’re cartoons.

The only way to do something original is to be down in the trenches and do it.

If you love cinema, it’s big and grand and incredibly romantic.

If you’re a filmmaker, it’s like you’re a doctor. You can’t do harm.

The violence, I enjoy that.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron.

I’m not a Hollywood filmmaker; I’m an American independent filmmaker.

When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.’

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it if my work has anything to do with a movie I love.

I want to create characters that have texture and not just cardboard cutouts.

I think one of the coolest things you can do as a filmmaker is to poke fun at your own stuff.

Movies are forever. They are the legacy you leave behind.

You can’t stop my happiness, because I like the way I am.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

The best revenge is massive success.

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.

Human beings in a mob are like cell phones. They all operate using the same frequency.

Movies are my escape.

If I had never seen Reservoir Dogs, I’d be a different filmmaker.

I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me.

Heroes are all dead. Go outside and meet some new people.

I steal from every movie ever made, there’s nothing original left.

My plan is to have a cinema chain that’s screening movies I like and I produce. It’ll probably just take one movie.

If there was ever a non-story that I ever imagined making a movie out of, it’s the story of Christ.

To me, it’s all about what I want to see on a screen. It gets a selfish thing.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Well, I guess when I made Pulp Fiction, I was 34, so I was already thinking I may have 10 films in me.

I put a punctuation mark on my movies.

If I had to define my movies, I’d say you tell stories.

Movies are like a bigger, more encompassing art form.

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.

I’m not a Hollywood filmmaker, and that’s not why I make movies.

You have to take bad films more seriously than good films.

I’m demanding as hell, and I’m probably not going to change.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron.

I have ideas for films, but I try not to think about them too much. Because if you start thinking about them too much you’re not going to want to sit down and actually write it.

Movies are like magic tricks.

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