Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making films.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

I think we should all live the moment. But you also have to think ahead. You have to think, 'Am I going to be happy with this five, ten years from now? Is it going to let me evolve and grow, or am I going to grow to one day wish I had never done it?' Sometimes you just have to think a little bit ahead.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

There's not day that goes by that I don't remember why I'm in the situation I'm in.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.