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 quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. Quentin Tarantino 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.
Quentin Tarantino I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. Quentin Tarantino 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 to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino 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.
Quentin Tarantino I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty. Quentin Tarantino If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool.
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it. Quentin Tarantino 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.
Quentin Tarantino 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. Quentin Tarantino 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.
Quentin Tarantino. Christian Slater 52 American actor. Tarantino receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, honoring his significant contributions to the entertainment industry. Tarantino has always meant for his films to be considered as a single body of work. Although the exercise will certainly take you from dusk till dawn, there's nothing like watching the entirety of Tarantino's work in the order it was created.
Tarantino's soundtracks are nothing short of legendary, making use of original compositions — such as Ennio Morricone's 50 minute score for The Hateful Eight — alongside tracks pulled from 60s and 70s cult classics. Most works are available on Spotify, so why not mix and match your own Tarantino playlist The Quentin Tarantino Film Festival is held semi-annually in Austin, Texas, and always attended by the auteur himself.
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National American Teddy Bear Day. He also landed a guest spot on the popular sitcom The Golden Girls , playing an Elvis Presley impersonator.
In , Tarantino left Video Archives to work for Cinetel, a production company. Through one of the producers there, he was able to get his script for True Romance in the hands of director Tony Scott. Scott liked Tarantino's script, and bought the rights to it.
Working with producer Lawrence Bender, Tarantino was able to secure funding for his directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs , for which he had also written the screenplay. Actor Harvey Keitel was impressed when he read the script, saying "I haven't seen characters like these in years. In , audiences at the Sundance Film Festival were entranced by Reservoir Dogs , Tarantino's ultraviolent crime caper gone wrong.
He drew inspiration for the project from such classic heist films as Rififi and City on Fire. The independent film helped make Tarantino one of the most talked-about figures in Hollywood. While not a big hit in the United States, it became a popular title on video and did well overseas. With Pulp Fiction , Tarantino created an unpredictable thrill ride filled with violence and pop culture references.
In one story in the film, John Travolta played Vincent Vega, a hit man assigned to look after his boss's girlfriend Uma Thurman —a role that helped resuscitate his then-flagging career.
And yet another storyline involved Bruce Willis as a boxer. Tarantino managed to successfully interweave all these different stories to make a fascinating film. It's so fast that very few people can keep up with his references," actor Eric Stoltz, who played a drug dealer in the film, explained to Los Angeles magazine. Pulp Fiction was both a commercial and critical success. For his work on the film, Tarantino took home the award for Best Original Screenplay, an honor he had to share with former collaborator Roger Avary.
The two had a falling out over the writing credits for the film. Known for his temper, Tarantino got into a public disagreement with director Oliver Stone. Stone directed Natural Born Killers and rewrote parts of Tarantino's script. Enraged by the rewrites, Tarantino fought to have his name taken off the film.
Stone told the press that the changes were an improvement over the original, which had poor character development. In a related incident, Tarantino slapped one of the producers of Natural Born Killers when he ran into him at Los Angeles restaurant. In , Tarantino wrote and directed one of the four stories featured in Four Rooms.
The other three were handled by other rising independent filmmakers Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell and Robert Rodriguez. Tarantino wrote the screenplay for the film and starred opposite George Clooney , the two playing criminals who end up battle vampires. Rodriguez directed the film, which received negative reviews from critics. Tarantino soon tackled Jackie Brown , a crime thriller starring Pam Grier as a stewardess who gets caught smuggling money for an arms dealer played by Jackson.
A tribute to the blaxploitation films of the s, the film was adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel. Grier herself had appeared in many blaxploitation classics, including Foxy Brown The film was well received, with many calling it a more mature work for Tarantino.
Not everyone loved the film, however. After Jackie Brown , Tarantino took a break from filmmaking. It was a bold move for him, as he had never done professional stage work before.
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