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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOYou 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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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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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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 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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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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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