Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino (born 27 March 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American screenwriter, film director and actor. His films include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained.

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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! Interview with The London Paper about Inglourious Basterds



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. BBC interview



Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. BBC interview



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



I look at Death Proof and realize I had too much time. http://web.archive.org/20090520151810/www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/interviews_profiles/e3i07c80a70350aca72e68eea8ffc6de060.

and realize I had too much time.

"Come on boy, get up." The movie Django: Unchained.



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. Empire magazine interview, 1994.



Once a lonely caterpillar sat and cried,

To a sympathetic beetle by his side. "I've got nobody to hug, I'm such an ugly bug." Then a spider and a dragon fly replied, "If you're serious and want to win a bride, Come along with us, To the glorious Annual ugly bug ball." Come on let's crawl Gotta crawl, gotta crawl To the ugly bug ball To the ball, to the ball And a happy time we'll have there One and all At the ugly bug ball While the crickets clicked their tricky melodies All the ants were fancy-dancing with the fleas Then up from under the ground The worms came squirming around Oh they danced until there legs were nearly lame Every little crawling creature you could name Everyone was glad What a time they had They were so happy they came Everyone was glad! What a time they had! They were so happy they came! Come on let's crawl Gotta crawl, gotta crawl To the ugly bug ball To the ball, to the ball And a happy time we'll have there One and all! At the ugly bug ball. Then our caterpillar saw a pretty queen She was beautiful in yellow, black and green He said, "Would you care to dance?" Their dancing led to romance. And she sat upon his caterpillar knees And he gave his caterpillar queen a squeeze Soon they'll honeymoon Build a big cocoon Thanks to the ugly bug ball Come on let's crawl Gotta crawl, gotta crawl, To the ugly bug ball To the ball, to the ball And a happy time we'll have there One and all! At the ugly bug ball!

Quentin Tarantino on media criticisms of animal exploitation in his movies.



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. Quentin Tarantino on media criticisms of violence in his movies.

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 am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. Talking Fiction (Rolling Stone, 2003)[1].



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. Talking Fiction (Rolling Stone, 2003)[2].



To me, torture would be watching sports on television. Playboy interview (November 1994 issue) [3].



But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs. Playboy interview (November 1994 issue).

