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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThere are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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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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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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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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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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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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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’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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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Violence is fun, man.
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I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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