If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
QUENTIN TARANTINOPigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Violence is fun, man.
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One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.
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I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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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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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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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 believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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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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Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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