A story is something that constantly unfolds.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Apocalypse Now was a major success. That was a smash. The film went on and made $100 million.
Artistically, from 55 on, I'll probably write novels.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
For both novels and film, 75 percent of the stories you're going to tell will work better on a dramatic basis.
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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.
I created, more or less, in these last 20 years, this type of film. And I do it better than anybody, but I'm bored with doing it now.
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
I don't really want to see movies from people that can't get it up anymore, and I don't really want to make movies if I can't get it up anymore.
I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
I enjoy the lucky situation that I have, where I get to live the life of an artist, and in the most expensive art form in the world.
I guess I always knew movies were written, but I didn't know what a director was.
I had kind of this like weird tunnel vision, where it's like once I got into it, I didn't have room for anything else as a kid.
I just have to have something to do. I could live 'til 100.
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 love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
I loved The Passion of the Christ. I loved The Incredibles.
I made Jackie Brown like the way I felt about Rio Bravo. It's just like, I know those people.
I might end up taking a novel and adapting it. That still requires me to write, but it's also coming from somewhere else.
I never set up a fall-back situation because I didn't want to fall back. I wanted to have to keep eating at it.
I saw Jackass and I saw what I'd been missing.
I steal from every movie ever made.
I think I've got another 15 years to still kick ass, and after that I'm out of it. I don't wanna see a movie where the guy's gotta take Viagra.
I think in the case of both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, it gains a lot more resonance being told in this kind of wild way.
I thought, I'm going to make my first film by the time I'm 26.
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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 want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
I was an usher at this porno movie theater at 16. Lied about my age.
I was interested in stories, and I was really interested in reading.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
I was the president of the Cannes Film Festival, so I saw a lot of really cool movies.
I was trying to create the most exciting action sequence in the history of cinema. It took me about a year to write the final fight sequence alone.
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 would like be acting out all the parts with all the G.I. Joes, and directing these little plays just for myself with the G.I. Joes.
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.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
I'm a little concerned about my voice thing getting old hat.
I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, that type of story.
I'm delivering the goods, but I'm also trying to reinvent it, in a way.
I'm making specific films. And if you make a specific film, that's not everything for everybody. You're going to turn some people off.
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'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 considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
I've always had kind of a game plan, but I don't have a story that I'm burning to tell.
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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.
I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
If there's one thing I've done that I'm the proudest of, is the fact that people talk about, Wow. You've had such success, and it's just been so overnight.
If they're going to do the book, I can't imagine why they wouldn't hire me, alright?
If you can't handle pressure in directing, then you can't handle it.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
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.
Jackie Brown, maybe that worked against me. I'm talking about the day it was released. Not now.
Most of the movies that you see nowadays, you pretty much know everything you're going to see in the movie by the first 10 or 20 minutes.
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.
My Casino Royale would have been like the book.
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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.
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.
Predicting the future, I'm not good at.
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.
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
That pain that I'm feeling has got to find its way into the story or else, what am I doing?
The $30 million movie, I'll make it look like a $60 million movie.
The first two jobs I got totally had to do with like the porno industry.
The good ideas will survive.
The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
The way I look at it is: this is my samurai movie; this is my badass chick movie; this is my spaghetti western and my comic book movie.
There's quite a few directors where you can't believe the work that they did in the '70s is the work they're doing now. You can't believe it's the same man.
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
To me, all movies are very personal.
To me, America is just another market.
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.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Whatever success I've got has come after like eight years of just nothing working out, trying to get a job in film.
When I go out on stage, I have to bring that experience on with me, or what am I doing up there?
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
In 2005, Quentin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series on the show CSI.
Michael Madsen's character in Reservoir Dogs and John Travolta's in Pulp Fiction are said to be brothers. They are Vic and Vince Vega. Harvey Keitel's character in Reservoir Dogs, Larry Dimmick, is also said to be related to Tarantino's own character in Pulp Fiction, Jimmie Dimmick.
Quentin Tarantino has a small acting role in all his films.
Quentin Tarantino's closest friend is fellow director Robert Rodriguez who he often refers to as his brother.
Quentin Tarantino's movie Pulp Fiction was nominated for an Best Picture Oscar in 1994.
Quentin Tarantino was made an honorary Viking at Viking Village while in Iceland, his Icelandic name is Quentin Conniesson.
Movie Director Credits: My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) Four Rooms (1995) Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) Grindhouse (2007)
Quentin Tarantino Guest Stared on an episode of The Golden Girls, he played an Elvis impersonator.
Quentin Tarantino's favourite James Bond movie is From Russia with Love (1963).
His favourite album is Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan.
Frequently works with Samuel L. Jackson.
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