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.
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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The good ideas will survive.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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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 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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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 am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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