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
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm 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.
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
To me, America is just another market.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
The good ideas will survive.
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 don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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.
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.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
I steal from every movie ever made.
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.
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.
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.
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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.
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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.
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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.
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
