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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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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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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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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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