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Quentin Tarantino

Ive always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. – Quentin Tarantino

Im a big collector of vinyl – I have a record room in my house – and Ive always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as Im writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. – Quentin Tarantino

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When Im writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music Im going to play for the opening sequence. – Quentin Tarantino

Movies are not about the weekend that theyre released, and in the grand scheme of things, thats probably the most unimportant time of a films life. – Quentin Tarantino

Im 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

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. Im lucky enough to be in the position where I dont make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it. – Quentin Tarantino

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I cant ever remember a time when I didnt. – Quentin Tarantino

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. Im attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isnt quite what Im seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff Ive never seen before. – Quentin Tarantino

Ive always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because theyre basically professional equivalents of a mix tape Id make for you at home. – Quentin Tarantino

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And thats what Im trying to do. – Quentin Tarantino

Its 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

I look at Death Proof and realize I had too much time. – Quentin Tarantino

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that thats becoming like a lost art in American cinema. – Quentin Tarantino

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

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

All my movies are achingly personal. – Quentin Tarantino

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. – 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

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