This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was.


Quentin Crisp

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I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the fai...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't ev...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets he...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I kne...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
One of the privileges you have of living the life of an artist and creating your own world and every...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I'm a historian in my own mind.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
The good ideas will survive.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
QUENTIN TARANTINO
All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formati...
QUENTIN BRYCE
One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to t...
QUENTIN BRYCE
I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, yo...
QUENTIN BRYCE
We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was ...
QUENTIN BRYCE
I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in busines...
QUENTIN BRYCE
My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;...
QUENTIN BRYCE
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly...
QUENTIN BRYCE
I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of we...
QUENTIN BRYCE
I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
QUENTIN BRYCE
'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch the...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
QUENTIN BLAKE
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my o...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a ...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzli...
QUENTIN BRYCE
In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at....
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla...
QUENTIN TARANTINO
I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey ...
QUENTIN BRYCE