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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy 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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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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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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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Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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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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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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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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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