When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
QUENTIN TARANTINOA movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.
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It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
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The good ideas will survive.
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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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