My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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 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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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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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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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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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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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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
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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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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 I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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