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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Violence is fun, man.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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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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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’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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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 steal from every movie ever made.
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