Top 55 Quentin Tarantino Quotes

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Quentin Tarantino is one of the most iconic directors of all time. With that in mind, check out the top 55 Quentin Tarantino quotes.

#55 – 50. Quentin Tarantino Quotes

55. Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

54. Mr White and Mr Pink have a very ungraceful and realistic fight. They go at each other like a couple of alley cats.

53. Mr Pink looks at Mr White as if he’s retarded.

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

51. Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.

50. 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.

#49 – 40. Quentin Tarantino Quotes

49. 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.

48. I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards — in the life of an artist.

47. I don’t believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

46. Say ‘auf wiedersehen’ to your nazi balls.

45. Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

44. My movies are painfully personal, but I’m never trying to let you know how personal they are. It’s my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. ‘Kill Bill’ is a very personal movie.

43. I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

42. Gentlemen you had my curiosity … but now you have my attention.

41. 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.

40. I’m an American, our names don’t mean shit.

#39 – 30. Quentin Tarantino Quotes

39. Keepin’ you at a disadvantage, is a advantage I intend to keep.

38. 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.

37. To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

36. I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

35. 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.

34. I’m a historian in my own mind.

33. I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

32. He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain’t white boy day, is it?

31. 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.

30. Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another color to work with.

#29 – 20. Quentin Tarantino Quotes

29. I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

28. 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.

27. I’ve never considered myself a writer writing stuff to sell, but as a director who writes stuff for himself to direct.

26. He’s reading it pretty good, but he’s still reading it from the page, and every once in a while he stumbles over his words.

25. I don’t think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

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

23. I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

22. I steal from every movie ever made.

21. Besides, even if you went all the way, what would you be? Feather-weight champion of the world. Who gives a shit? I doubt you can even get a credit card based on that.

20. I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: Ok you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

#19 – 10. Quentin Tarantino Quotes

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

18. I grandiose my way out of fear.

17. In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

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

15. One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and everything is the fact that, in-between times, you can kind of spend them however you want.

14. There are two ways: my way and the highway.

13. 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.

12. The good ideas will survive.

‎11. That’s when you know you’ve found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.

10. If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn’t be writing screenplays. I’d be writing novels.

#9 – 1. Quentin Tarantino Quotes

9. I realized I should be the weakest link in my chain. And that will make me be stronger, I’ll make me run faster.

8. His movie is called ‘Planet Terror,’ and mine is called ‘Death Proof,’ … Mine is sort of a slasher film, but instead of a knife, it’s a car. … His, he’s dealing with zombies and all that stuff. I think his might end up being more violent, but I’m not finished with my [script] yet, so you never know.

7. 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.

6. To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

5. Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.

4. 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.

3. 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.

2. 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.

1. The same light SHINES from the case. Pumpkin’s expression goes to amazement. Honey Bunny across the room, can’t see shit

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