Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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 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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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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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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
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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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