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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More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.
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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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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 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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.
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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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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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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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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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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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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 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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You 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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