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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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 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 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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
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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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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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