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Quentin Tarantino
Related Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think... ROSE MCGOWAN I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don'... TYLER, THE CREATOR Quentin Tarantino doesn't beat Hal Ashby, and he's one of my favorite directors. Quentin is ... DAVID CARRADINE The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a m... MELANIE LAURENT I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little sc... REBEL WILSON I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite. MADISON DAVENPORT I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me. PORTIA DE ROSSI I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't ... CATHLEEN SCHINE I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don... HOWARD HODGKIN Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor. ATO ESSANDOH So many people who have been nominated for an Oscar have had bad luck afterwards. GIG YOUNG If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd pr... MADISON DAVENPORT Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. BRENDA BLETHYN Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have? ANTHONY T. HINCKS Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know... MELANIE LAURENT I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love p... DANIELLA ALONSO It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies becaus... STEVEN SPIELBERG Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension... STEVE ERICKSON I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't wa... LUDIVINE SAGNIER I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtr... ELIZA DOOLITTLE There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My p... SYLVESTER STALLONE Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him. VANESSA FERLITO God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my sup... JOSIE LOREN I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to ... MAIKA MONROE I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any poi... ANTHONY BOURDAIN I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, ... LARRY BISHOP I don't listen to the radio, cause I don't have a driver's license. But if I'm in L.... BENNY BLANCO I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do t... CAITLYN JENNER I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees t... BRION JAMES From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities whi... GEMMA CHAN I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in... R. KELLY I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue. CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period. BENJAMIN WALKER Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless. and Just because you don't... ANTHONY T. HINCKS I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, an... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportuniti... DANNY MASTERSON I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whateve... ROBERT OSBORNE I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies. ZOE KAZAN If you don't like my movies, don't watch them. DARIO ARGENTO I don't do deleted scenes. ROBERT SCHWENTKE If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very stron... MERYL STREEP At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. ... AARON SORKIN It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I thi... JOHN LANDIS I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them... ALBERT BROOKS Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'... BRYAN FULLER I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven... STEVE CARELL If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell... ERNST FISCHER I don't think I have ever been out of control. BOBBY KNIGHT I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have... MO IBRAHIM I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, a... BILL BURR The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action... ELVIS MITCHELL I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever ... VINCE MCMAHON I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone. PENELOPE CRUZ Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even... CARLA GUGINO Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that dist... BOB WEINSTEIN I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal ... EUGENE LEVY I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a... JASON REITMAN Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me. ADAM DRIVER I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. ... DON AMECHE One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard ... GABOUREY SIDIBE I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to w... KIRSTEN DUNST If you are dissatisfied with what you have, Then you will never be satisfied with what you have... ANTHONY T. HINCKS My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been lai... LAYNE STALEY You don't just win an Oscar because you're a great actor. You campaign for that Oscar: you e... DAVID HAREWOOD I don't think I could ever go skinny. I just don't think, physiologically, that is going to ... REBEL WILSON I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enou... MAE WHITMAN People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can ex... KATY PERRY I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think m... BILL PLYMPTON I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation. DON DELILLO Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti... MICHAEL JACKSON When I was nominated for the Oscar, I was absolutely positive that Judy Garland would win for 'J... RITA MORENO I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like th... MICHAEL BIEHN I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them. FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a... JACK WILD I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that ... AYAAN HIRSI ALI Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None ... MARTIN KIPPENBERGER We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions ... MICHAEL BAY Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort ... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my bu... ERYKAH BADU My dream role would be to play a femme fatale in a Quentin Tarantino movie. MEAGHAN RATH I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a ... JASPER FFORDE I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. ... CHANNING TATUM There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never... SAOIRSE RONAN Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I ... J. R. SMITH I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevic... ROXANE GAY I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that.... HUGH JACKMAN I think that Shake Shack wouldn't exist had it not been for Twitter. I don't think you would... DANNY MEYER I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have... JULIA ROBERTS If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea. AZZEDINE ALAIA I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doin... MAXINE WATERS A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is ... DENNIS CHRISTOPHER Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of thi... J. R. SMITH Both my husband and I wanted a boy. I wasn't sure what I'd do with a daughter. What if she a... HOLLY COMBS I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal... BRANDON SANDERSON Movies don't have borders. TAHAR RAHIM I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'... RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Ver... XAVIER DOLAN
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QUENTIN BRYCE I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be ... QUENTIN BRYCE Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue... QUENTIN BRYCE I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distract... QUENTIN BLAKE The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets. QUENTIN BLAKE It was an accident of circumstance that I never married. QUENTIN BLAKE I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and o... QUENTIN BLAKE I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawi... QUENTIN BLAKE I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only... QUENTIN BLAKE I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ... 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QUENTIN CRISP The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli... QUENTIN BRYCE The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appa... QUENTIN CRISP It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be ... QUENTIN CRISP Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. QUENTIN CRISP The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ... QUENTIN BRYCE For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. QUENTIN CRISP Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost? QUENTIN CRISP The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. QUENTIN CRISP Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of tw... QUENTIN CRISP Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed see... QUENTIN CRISP Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that i... QUENTIN CRISP The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so... QUENTIN CRISP One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend. QUENTIN CRISP The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is... QUENTIN CRISP There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any wor... QUENTIN CRISP I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned QUENTIN CRISP Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast... QUENTIN CRISP Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. QUENTIN CRISP Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. QUENTIN CRISP Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you underst... QUENTIN CRISP The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now s... QUENTIN CRISP Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. QUENTIN CRISP The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy QUENTIN CRISP Turning a broken process into a “non-negotiable” standard does not a good procedure make. QUENTIN BRAUN It takes more than talking points and consultative knowhow. What sets apart a legitimate and compete... QUENTIN BRAUN