40 Quentin Tarantino Quotes That Will Motivate You

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40 Best Quentin Tarantino Quotes

1. “There’s only one list that’s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d’Or. It’s the list of directors who didn’t.” – Quentin Tarantino

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2. “If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn’t be writing screenplays. I’d be writing novels.” – Quentin Tarantino

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3. “You can’t write poetry on the computer.” – Quentin Tarantino

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4. “I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.” – Quentin Tarantino

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5. “I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.” – Quentin Tarantino

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6. “There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.” – Quentin Tarantino

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7. “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.” – Quentin Tarantino

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8. “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

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9. “Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.” – Quentin Tarantino

10. “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

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11. “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

12. “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.” – Quentin Tarantino

13. “When I’m writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I’m doing it, as I’m writing it.” – Quentin Tarantino

14. “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

15. “Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.” – Quentin Tarantino

16. “When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’” – Quentin Tarantino

17. “Violence is fun, man.” – Quentin Tarantino

18. “I steal from every movie ever made.” – Quentin Tarantino

19. “I didnt go to film school, i went to films.” – Quentin Tarantino

20. “If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.” – Quentin Tarantino

21. “If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.” – Quentin Tarantino

22. “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.” – Quentin Tarantino

23. “If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.” – Quentin Tarantino

24. “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

25. “Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.” – Quentin Tarantino

26. “I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them.” – Quentin Tarantino

27. “Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.” – Quentin Tarantino

28. “Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.” – Quentin Tarantino

29. “I’m a historian in my own mind.” – Quentin Tarantino

30. “The good ideas will survive.” – Quentin Tarantino

31. “Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.” – Quentin Tarantino

32. “In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.” – Quentin Tarantino

33. “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

34. “I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.” – Quentin Tarantino

35. “A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.” – Quentin Tarantino

36. “All my movies are achingly personal.” – Quentin Tarantino

37. “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.” – Quentin Tarantino

38. “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

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

40. “I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.” – Quentin Tarantino

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