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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf 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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You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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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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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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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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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 not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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