Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

- Quentin Tarantino

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

- Quentin Tarantino

I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'

- Quentin Tarantino

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

- Quentin Tarantino

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

- Quentin Tarantino

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

- Quentin Tarantino

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

- Quentin Tarantino

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

- Quentin Tarantino

I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

- Quentin Tarantino

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

- Quentin Tarantino

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

- Quentin Tarantino

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

- Quentin Tarantino

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

- Quentin Tarantino

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.

- Quentin Tarantino

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

- Quentin Tarantino

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

- Quentin Tarantino

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

- Quentin Tarantino

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

- Quentin Tarantino

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

- Quentin Tarantino

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

- Quentin Tarantino