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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.

Quentin Tarantino

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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Age Children Parents Preserve System
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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Demand Myself Right Thinking Truth Writing
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Answer Myself Question Scare
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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Couple Emotion Enough Goodness Movie Night
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Expectation Movie Myself Surprise Top
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Character Yourself
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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Death Fun Genre Live Love Myself
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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Death Enough God Movie Myself Pay Position Religion
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Myself Novel Paper Pen Pieces
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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Goodness Happiness Myself Style Writing
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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Circumstance Determination Movie Yourself
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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Education Movie Myself People
One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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Correct Myself Politics Time
If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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Accomplishment Artist Easy Myself Violence Work
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Dog Personality Way
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking

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