If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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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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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.
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I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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 actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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