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I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.

I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

I was trying to do like a Spaghetti Western but using World War II iconography.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fu*kers to turn the music down.

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

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

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

I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.

The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.

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

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

To me, America is just another market.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

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.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

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

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 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.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

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

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

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.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

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

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

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.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

Gentlemen you had my curiosity ... but now you have my attention.

Ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

Violence is fun, man.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

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

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

The good ideas will survive.

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

I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

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

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

I steal from every movie ever made.

I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions.

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

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

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

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

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.

Jules Winnfield: "ENGLISH, MOTHER FUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!?"

Samuel L. Jackson

I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

There are two ways: my way and the highway.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.