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.
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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Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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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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One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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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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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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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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