Quentin Tarantino Quotes

I've always been pushing that envelope. I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., 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.

Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.

But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

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

...that fucking wasteland of a decade...

I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages.

The harshest censorship is self-censorship.

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.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.

With Kill Bill, I wanted to test myself, see how good I am. I wanted to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my own talent. The only reason for me to do it was to raise the bar. I used to say, 'Kill Bill has to be to fight scenes what the "Ride of the Valkyries" scene in Apocalypse Now is to battle scenes, or else I will have failed.' Completely. If this doesn't just fucking rock, then I'm just not as good as I think I am.

Watch the movie closely, and you’ll see how personal it is. Here’s a film in which cinema brings down the Nazi regime, metaphorically and literally. What could possibly be better than that? In this story, cinema changes the world, and I fucking love that idea!

Sure, Kill Bill's 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.

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

I am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.