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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

Quentin Tarantino

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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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Education Movie Myself People
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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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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History Love Movie Myself Perspective See
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing
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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Character Job Judgement Myself Point View
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Reveal Secret Truth Voice Writing Yourself
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.
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Failure Gate Myself Reach Risk Talent Test Time
I steal from every movie ever made.
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Day Movie Myself Steal Theft
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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Character Myself Obligation
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Expectation Movie Myself Surprise Top
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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Death Enough God Movie Myself Pay Position Religion
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Answer Myself Question Scare
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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Celebration Invitation Job Party Yourself
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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Break Movie Myself People Rule Writing
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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Boredom Game Movie Myself Stupidity Understand
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Fun Oneself Violence
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Dog Personality Way
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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Actor Collaboration Magic Myself
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Computer Poetry Writing
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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Color Life Reality Terrible Violence Work
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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Bad Goodness People Response Writing
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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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing
I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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Audience Believe Elite Low Myself Person Thinking
If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
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Focus Love Movie Offering People Yourself
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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Age Children Parents Preserve System
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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Death Easy Kill Solution Way

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

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