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

Quentin Tarantino

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Quentin Tarantino
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 27
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If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.
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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.
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.
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... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.
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When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
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I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
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If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
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I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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