My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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 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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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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