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.
Quentin Tarantino

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

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

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

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.
Quentin Tarantino

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
Quentin Tarantino

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
Quentin Tarantino

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.
Quentin Tarantino

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.
Quentin Tarantino

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

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

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.
Quentin Tarantino

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

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.
Quentin Tarantino

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
Quentin Tarantino

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

The good ideas will survive.
Quentin Tarantino

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

To me, America is just another market.
Quentin Tarantino