You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie. Quentin Tarantino More Quotes by Quentin Tarantino More Quotes From Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino writing character two I remember when it was reported that I was going to do the film in this format, people were actually speculating, and I guess I understand it. They were like, "Yeah, okay, that all sounds really great, but why would he do it for a thing that's so set bound?" That's not very profound thinking when it comes to 65mm. It's not just for shooting travelogues, mountain scenery and nature. Quentin Tarantino profound people thinking By the time I was doing "Kill Bill," it was so much filled with prose that, you know, I start seeing why people write a screenplay and make it more like a blueprint, because basically I had written - in "Kill Bill," I had basically written a novel, and basically every day I was adapting my novel to the screen on the fly, you know, on my feet. Quentin Tarantino feet writing people 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. Quentin Tarantino novelists stories trying 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. Quentin Tarantino lasts editing writing What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. 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So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Li movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film. Quentin Tarantino green use summer If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that! Quentin Tarantino pages hurt trying I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do. Quentin Tarantino passion trying people To me, torture would be watching sports on television. Quentin Tarantino would-be sports television Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it. Quentin Tarantino instruments know-how play I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. 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Quentin Tarantino find-me easy laughing I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli. Quentin Tarantino feuds blood art If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse. Quentin Tarantino ignored awards winning When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was. Quentin Tarantino waltz actors struggle Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him. Quentin Tarantino colonels waltz character
