Quentin Tarantino

I'd kill a million rats, but I don't necessarily want to kill one in a movie or see one killed in a movie, because I'm not paying to see real death.

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

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

My movies are painfully personal but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are it's my job to make it be personal and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me i am the audience.

Not every movie needs to be made. Not every movie should be made.

Filmmaking can be a democratic process. In which other people, other than rich white men, can make movies.

I'm shutting your butt down!

I like the way blood looks in black and white. It's like a Rorschach test.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a thought leader. I'm a filmmaker.

I don't answer questions like that. I reject your hypothesis.

I'm not a student of world cinema. I'm not a student of anything. I'm a fan.

I don't care if people think my movies are too violent or too this or too that.

I think your questions are reductive and I'm not answering them.

Most of it should be subconscious, if the work is coming from a special place. If I'm thinking and maneuvering that pen around, then that's me doing it. I really should let the characters take it. But the characters are different facets of me, or maybe they're not me, but they are coming from me. So when they take it, that's just me letting my subconscious rip.

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.

You know, anything can be- you can make a joke out of anything. You name me any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it, all right, because you know, and a joke is a joke.

Violence was like another character in the room. It hung over the proceedings. You kept waiting for every conversation to break out into it. So even if it was funny, the audience might have laughed, but when they get out of the theater, they don't remember laughing.

A writer, a writer- you know, you should have this little voice inside of you saying, 'Tell the truth.'