Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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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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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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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 actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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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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A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.
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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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