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.
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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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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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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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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 want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Violence is fun, man.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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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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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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