All my movies are achingly personal.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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Violence is fun, man.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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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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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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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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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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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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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