Quentin Tarantino Quotes
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced. 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. I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back. 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. My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid. My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. 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. 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. Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room. Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. The good ideas will survive. To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper. To me, America is just another market.
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