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 More Quotes by Quentin Tarantino More Quotes From Quentin Tarantino I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages. Quentin Tarantino movie artist motivational I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling. Quentin Tarantino storytelling thinking The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system. Quentin Tarantino family parent children Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. Quentin Tarantino personality dog long I steal from every movie ever made. Quentin Tarantino filmmaker stealing made When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done. Quentin Tarantino cinema writing jobs You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie. Quentin Tarantino good-movie passion heart I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. Quentin Tarantino If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work. Quentin Tarantino temperature violence pressure You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't feel the police are all corrupt, however I do feel they are suffering from institutional racism and there needs to be a top-to-bottom examination of the way they practice and the way they criminalize young black and brown males. The fact that they seem to have backed off from it seems to suggest they realize they overreacted on me and it looks bad. Quentin Tarantino racism practice thinking When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won’t allow their characters to go down those roads... I’ve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I’ll follow them. Quentin Tarantino down-and writing character 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. Quentin Tarantino writing jobs character My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been. Quentin Tarantino motivational inspirational character I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist. Quentin Tarantino humor artist thinking The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end. Quentin Tarantino django triumph cheer I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play. Quentin Tarantino play class school I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view. Quentin Tarantino views jobs character It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in. Quentin Tarantino humanity jobs people Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. Quentin Tarantino movie lucky actors When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling. Quentin Tarantino jobs kids school
