Quentin Tarantino

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

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.

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.

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. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.

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.

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

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

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.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

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