Quentin Tarantino

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

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

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

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.

If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.