All my movies are achingly personal.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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 name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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The good ideas will survive.
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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 am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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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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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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Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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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Violence is fun, man.
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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 you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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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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