37 quotes found
Filmmaker · American · 1963
American filmmaker (born 1963)
“...that fucking wasteland of a decade...”
“The harshest censorship is self-censorship.”
“Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.”
“I look at Death Proof and realize I had too much time.”
“To me, torture would be watching sports on television.”
“If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.”
“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”
“CHAPTER 2: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDSALDO THE APACHEMy name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me 8 soldiers. 8 Jewish-American soldiers.Now, y'all might've heard rumor...”
“As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as...”
“I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”
“Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or... Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck h...”
“For those regarded as warriors...When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warriors only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, ...”
“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”
“I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying...”
“I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.”
“Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.”
“A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.”
“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'”
“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't qu...”
“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.”
“When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road a...”
“None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.”
“My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know ...”
“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.”