Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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.
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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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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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