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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More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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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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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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 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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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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