I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMovies 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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I’m basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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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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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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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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I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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