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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Quentin Tarantino

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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Basic Goodness Home Professional Sound Thinking Yourself
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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
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
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Joke Name Yourself
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
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Reveal Secret Truth Voice Writing Yourself
If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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Character Job Myself Right Writing
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking
The good ideas will survive.
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Goodness Ideas Inspirational One Liner Survive
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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Break Movie Myself People Rule Writing
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
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
One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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Correct Myself Politics Time
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Dog Personality Way
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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Big Different Live Planet Yourself
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

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