Quentin Tarantino Quotes

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

I think it speaks to people in 2015, right now. We address real situations. It's real life! Everything that happens in 'Dope' could happen today.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

In the first test screening of 'RoboCop,' it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, 'I liked it because it was political.' And the second answer was because, 'It feels like it deals with current affairs.' And the third answer was, 'Because it feels emotional.'

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

Those old enough to write their memoirs should not comment on contemporary issues.

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present

If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.

People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

My job is not to predict everything that might happen in the future, but to address what we can do today.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

People come to my shows and know that they're going to hear about what's going on in the world - what's happening at the moment. My material is as new as anything on the dinner table.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

What we do right now, today, matters.

I move with the time. Whatever's happening in time, I'm in.

Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.