My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIn real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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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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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.
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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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I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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