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As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they cared about themselves. But two, was actually at a certain point I just realized that I love movies too much to simply appear in them. I wanted the movies to be my movies.

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Quentin Tarantino
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 27
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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 hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I`m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy.
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I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
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I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
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What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
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Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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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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I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.
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