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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOA 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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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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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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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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 one of the most fun things to watch.
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