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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.

Quentin Tarantino

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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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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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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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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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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