Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.


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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