My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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 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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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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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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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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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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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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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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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 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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The good ideas will survive.
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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’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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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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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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