I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’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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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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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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One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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