Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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 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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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The good ideas will survive.
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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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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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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 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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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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