Quentin Tarantino

I'm a big believer in the power of music in movies.

I don't care about being popular. I care about making movies that I'm proud of.

I think about my movies all the time. It's like a disease.

I'm a storyteller, not a moralist.

I hope the publicity you're getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of? ... After I gave you a job, and you took the money, to trash it for what I suspect is very cynical reasons shows a decided lack of class, no less honour.

But when the black critics came out with savage think pieces about Django, I couldn't have cared less. If people don't like my movies, they don't like my movies, and if they don't get it, it doesn't matter.

You wouldn't think the colour of a writer's skin should have any effect on the words themselves. In a lot of the more ugly pieces, my motives were really brought to bear in the most negative way. It's like I'm some supervillain coming up with this stuff.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

I'm a cheerleader towards violence in cinema. you know I have no problem is saying that I like violent movies. and I respond to violent movies. and I actually think violence is one of the things. that uh the Lumiere brothers helped invented the camera to do it's actually in some ways it's cinema reaching. its one of its fullest potentials.

I have absolutely no hypocrisy or contradiction whatsoever to say that you know I abhor violence in real life and I can love it in genre. and I can love it in stories and I can love it in uh novels.

People can uh absolutely positively uh accuse my movies of being bloodthirsty. and they might very well be right and if that is not your cup of tea. then you should drink another cup of tea.

It was statutory rape. He had sex with a minor. That's not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you're talking about violent, throwing them down — it's like one of the most violent crimes in the world.

The flaw is Paul Dano. Obviously, it's supposed to be a two-hander, and it's also so drastically obvious that it's not a two-hander. … He is weak sauce, man. He's a weak sister.

I don't care for Matthew Lillard.

George Clooney is not a movie star.

Marvel movies ruined the movie business. They're the only things that seem to be made. And they're the only things that seem to generate any kind of excitement amongst a fan base or even for the studio making them.

Bruce had nothing but disrespect for American stuntmen and was always hitting them. ... I can understand his daughter having a problem with it, everyone else could 'go suck a d***.'

I wish I had sat him down and gone, 'Harvey you can't do this, you're gonna f*** up everything.' I don't think anybody talked to him about it.

It's none of your damn business what I think about that. ... Don't ask me a question like that, I'm not going to I'm not biting i refuse your question. i'm not a monkey.

If you've made money being a critic in black culture in the last 20 years you have to deal with me. You must have an opinion of me. You must deal with what I'm saying and deal with the consequences.