Quentin Tarantino Quotes

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

I always want to try to make films feel timeless, because one of my biggest pet peeves is that there's a movie you love, and then you revisit it twenty years later, you show your kid or something, and it's like, 'Oh my God!' with hairstyles and clothing and all that kind of stuff.

Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.

There is such a flood of TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books, but somehow 'Avatar' is still being discovered by each new generation.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

Kung fu films have to move with the rest of the world. You couldn't keep on doing sword fights in historic films. People wanted superheroes. They wanted something fast and new.

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.

Each time these pioneers expanded into new realms, they discovered the old ways wouldn't work. Whenever a new domain was inhabited by humans, old survival patterns were left behind and new patterns created.

Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.

The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.