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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

Quentin Tarantino

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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Bad Goodness People Response Writing
Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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Animal Eat Food Myself
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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Justice People Police Protest Shoot
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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Enough Goodness Love Movie Yourself
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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Character Job Myself Right Writing
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Character Yourself
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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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
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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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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History Love Movie Myself Perspective See
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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Clever Cool Emotion Greatness Win Yourself
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Joke Name Yourself
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Death Dedication Determination Movie Myself
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Confusion Emotion Movie Myself Start View
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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Brain Flow Kind Moments Myself Process Try Writing

I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.

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