If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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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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I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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Violence is fun, man.
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Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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