Quentin Tarantino Quotes

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

People ask me, "Why do you love making films?" and I always say, "Because I love film." I hope that I can call myself a movie buff.

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

I think I'm a prudent filmmaker.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer are showmen too; but they exploit what is already made. The showmen of Hollywood control the making - and thereby degrade it. For the basic art of motion pictures is the screenplay; it is fundamental, without it there is nothing. Everything derives from the screenplay, and most of that which derives is an applied skill which, however adept, is artistically not in the same class with the creation of a screenplay.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

It's true, I'm the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesn't care. That's good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. It's about finding great scripts and bringing them to life.

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

I just loved films. I knew I wanted to work on film, not video.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

I think it's rare for anyone that a really accomplished, amazing director calls you up and says, 'I want to make a movie around you, and I want it to be this.'

I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing.

I grew up with Western films, and I always wondered why Bollywood never made films like that. Why do we always have to break into song?

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

I do not proactively approach Hollywood, but also I do not always turn down offers. But since I'm living as a movie director, I have a desire to shoot something like 'This is a Hollywood movie!' at least once in my lifetime.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.