I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
QUENTIN TARANTINOParticularly 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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If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
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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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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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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 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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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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 am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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