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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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