Jackie Brown Quotes

• 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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  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie   Character   Trying  

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 10, 2003.

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• There's people saying that 'Jackie Brown' was a blaxploitation movie, when there's nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.

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  Michael Jai White

  People   Jackie Brown   Brown  

  "Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2009.

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• Girl, don't make me put my foot in your ass.

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  Samuel L. Jackson

  Girl   Feet   Ass  

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• I think one of the most important American films is "Jackie Brown", which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the 90s.

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  Arnaud Desplechin

  Powerful   Humble   Character  

  "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

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• With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."

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  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing   Kill Bill   Calling  

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• My ass may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.

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  Samuel L. Jackson

  Dumb   May   Ass  

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• The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.

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  David Denby

  War   Eerie   Evil  

  David Denby (2013). “Do the Movies Have a Future?”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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