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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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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 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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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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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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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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Violence is fun, man.
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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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