Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
QUENTIN TARANTINOTo 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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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 basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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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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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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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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