My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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 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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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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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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 actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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