When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThat’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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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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 am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.
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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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