Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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 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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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 steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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’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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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to 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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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 is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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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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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 you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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’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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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