I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. - Quentin Tarantino
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
- Quentin Tarantino
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. - Quentin Tarantino
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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 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.
Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down. - Quentin Tarantino
Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart. - Quentin Tarantino
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
The good ideas will survive. - Quentin Tarantino
The good ideas will survive.
The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they j… - Quentin Tarantino
The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they j…
Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character. - Quentin Tarantino
Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective. - Quentin Tarantino
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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