Quentin Tarantino

“I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.”

“In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.”

“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”

“I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?”

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

“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.”

“To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.”

“I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.”

“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. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.”

“I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.”

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

“I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.”

“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 wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.”

“My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.”

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

“לצד הדיאלוגים השנונים ומשחקי הנרטיבים התסריטאיים, ייצוגי האלימות ביצירותיו היוו מרכיב חשוב במשיכה האדירה של הקהל לסרטיו של הבמאי המבריק.”

“לקוונטין טרנטינו יש כמות מדהימה של אנרגיה והתלהבות. כל כך מרגש לראות אותו כשהוא בפעולה וללמוד ממנו!”

“הקולנוע שלו... מבדר ומסעיר אבל גם אינטליגנטי ומרשים ברמתו המקצועית.”

“זה היה המשחק הטוב ביותר שראיתי בכל חיי.”