When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.
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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.
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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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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 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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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