Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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 be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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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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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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A 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’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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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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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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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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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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You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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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 don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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