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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.


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DAVID CARRADINE Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
VANESSA FERLITO I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love p...
DANIELLA ALONSO Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
ATO ESSANDOH I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.
MADISON DAVENPORT 'Pulp Fiction' is my favorite movie of all time.
PAUL PIERCE I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
QUENTIN TARANTINO I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.
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STEVE ERICKSON If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd pr...
MADISON DAVENPORT I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
HALSEY I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don'...
TYLER, THE CREATOR I wouldn't define myself as the girl from 'Pulp Fiction.'
MARIA DE MEDEIROS Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension...
STEVE ERICKSON 'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.
MARTIN MCDONAGH I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to ...
MAIKA MONROE A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino...
BIPASHA BASU After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Ch...
JACKIE CHAN With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics ro...
JAMIE FOXX Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
JACKIE CHAN I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary '...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitim...
KEVIN MITNICK I'd love to work with Quentin Tarantino but I think I need to take baby steps into more adult materi...
HILARY DUFF I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.
SIMON RATTLE The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a m...
MELANIE LAURENT Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think...
ROSE MCGOWAN I can't get enough of 'Pulp Fiction.' I just love it; it still holds up. And it didn'...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from not...
BARRET OLIVER I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to...
BARRY MCGEE I tried to go to college in the U.K. a couple of times, but at that point, I think I was a little di...
BILLY HOWLE I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an inte...
BRAD PITT I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn&...
BILL GOLDBERG I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It ...
BROOKE ADAMS I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the k...
PAUL GIAMATTI I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ...
ELIZABETH PENA I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being wit...
QANDEEL BALOCH I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. ...
DANIEL CRAIG What I wanted to make sure of is that I wasn't just tagged as a Viner.
RUTH B I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm ve...
NOAH BAUMBACH I got lipo because I felt that that little stomach, no matter how much I was working out, wasn't...
CECE PENISTON I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soo...
TRAVIS BARKER I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for fiv...
KIRK HAMMETT I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, ...
LARRY BISHOP It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ...
ANNA WINTOUR Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that dist...
BOB WEINSTEIN I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in schoo...
DYLAN O'BRIEN I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hu...
COREY TAYLOR Acting wasn't some long-held dream, and it still isn't, really. I'm just trying to make ...
TRAVIS FIMMEL In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of...
ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. ...
DON JOHNSON I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtr...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care ...
GABY HOFFMANN I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to w...
KIRSTEN DUNST I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.
DANIEL S. LOEB Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew ...
CLAUDIA SCHIFFER [Devito, with the help of director Quentin Tarantino, persuaded the actor to make this one.] He coul...
JOHN TRAVOLTA I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou...
CHRISTINE MCVIE I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my cre...
JAMES WAN There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fractur...
CHRIS EVANS I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another re...
DAN DEACON My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of th...
ADRIANNE PALICKI I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
PAT SUMMITT You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. ...
STEVE CARELL I wanted to have a label to not only release my own stuff but to also give young talent a chance to ...
MARTIN GARRIX I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with ...
ERIC BRISTOW I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be t...
KAY CANNON With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than...
JODIE FOSTER I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a...
JOHN KRASINSKI I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act lik...
BRETT DIER I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ...
FERGIE I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of v...
ETHEL MERMAN When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then ...
SCOTT THOMPSON I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ...
DAVID S. GOYER I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I ...
PAT BARKER 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effec...
AARON JOHNSON For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because ...
MELANIE LAURENT It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I ...
NANCY KERRIGAN I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multif...
CINDY SHERMAN I didn't want to make soundtrack film or a gun movie. These are the reasons I wanted to make a movie...
TIM ROTH The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband...
DAWN STEEL I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a ...
TERRELL DAVIS At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't...
KERRY STOKES I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy won...
TORI SPELLING When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie car...
AIMEE GARCIA I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th...
JIM JARMUSCH I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the...
ROGER WATERS I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies wi...
QUENTIN TARANTINO If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach m...
CHRIS WOOD As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - al...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS 'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' an...
MARLON WAYANS The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was ...
WYATT RUSSELL I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.
MICHELLE ROWEN I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.
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QUENTIN BLAKE It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of the...
QUENTIN CRISP When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up a...
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...
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