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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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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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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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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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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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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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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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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 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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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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