Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantinois an American filmmaker and actor. His films are characterized by non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter, an aestheticization of violence and gore, extended scenes of dialogue, utilization of ensemble casts consisting of established and lesser-known performers, references to popular culture, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, and features of neo-noir film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth27 March 1963
CityKnoxville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
To me, America is just another market.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.
I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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.
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 am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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.
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made whether they meant to make it or not.
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.