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 TARANTINOThe children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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 have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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’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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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