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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

Quentin Tarantino

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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
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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Character Job Myself Right Writing
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Joke Name Yourself
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Reveal Secret Truth Voice Writing Yourself
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Confusion Emotion Movie Myself Start View
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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Learning Myself People Quick Win
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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Celebration Invitation Job Party Yourself
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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Clever Cool Emotion Greatness Win Yourself
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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Break Movie Myself People Rule Writing
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Fun Oneself Violence
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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Brain Flow Kind Moments Myself Process Try Writing
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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Education Feeling Interest Myself Stop
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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Justice People Police Protest Shoot
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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Bad Goodness People Response Writing
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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Boredom Game Movie Myself Stupidity Understand

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

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