I kind of like the idea of making 10 motion pictures and then, boom, that's it, that's done, the filmography is locked and there you go. Quentin Tarantino More Quotes by Quentin Tarantino More Quotes From Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino perspectivewritingthinking The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air. Quentin Tarantino ripcuttinganimal A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue. Quentin Tarantino nextqualitywould-be I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director. Quentin Tarantino herotwodirectors There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America. Quentin Tarantino cynicalamericaideas A thing when I was writing the movie 'The hateful eight' was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period. Quentin Tarantino eighthatewriting You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface. Quentin Tarantino connectionsdifferentwatches I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre. Quentin Tarantino storieswantfirsts Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies. Quentin Tarantino lyingpeoplethinking American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills or things like that, and you know, cut up the bodies and stuff. And then the other enemy soldiers would come across and find their comrades laying there, ripped apart, and they would be sickened by it and it would scare them. Quentin Tarantino cuttingtiessoldier When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head. Quentin Tarantino blondesonginteresting I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up. Quentin Tarantino predatorbeatspeople I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them. Quentin Tarantino hard-timeswinningpeople If it's too much for people, if audiences don't accept it, well I guess that's just the way it is. I'm not being cavalier when it comes to my financial partners, but I think I've earned the right to do my thing my way. While I really want it to do well and it would be lovely if it's popular, movies are for a long time. I'm really proud of the piece. If it ends up not connecting with audiences, I won't be heartbroken. I'll be a little disappointed, but I won't be heartbroken. Quentin Tarantino heartbrokenlongthinking 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. Quentin Tarantino sequencesong One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow. Quentin Tarantino blockwritingcharacter I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that if I did a Western, it would have a lot of the aesthetics of Spaghetti Westerns, because I really like them. Quentin Tarantino would-betryingthinking I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing. Quentin Tarantino hollywood-hillsheartthinking I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap. Quentin Tarantino videodefinitionsused 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. Quentin Tarantino partywantmen
