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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 Tarantino

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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Heart People Reading Thinking Voice Writing Yourself
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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Justice People Police Protest Shoot
Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Actor Director Job Myself Parents
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Joke Name Yourself
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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Focus Love Movie Offering People Yourself
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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Audience Believe Elite Low Myself Person Thinking
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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Failure Gate Myself Reach Risk Talent Test Time
I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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Believe God Myself
Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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Animal Eat Food Myself
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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Bad Goodness People Response Writing
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Character Yourself
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.
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Circumstance Determination Movie Yourself
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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Actor Collaboration Magic Myself
If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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Accomplishment Artist Easy Myself Violence Work

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