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.
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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
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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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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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I steal from every movie ever made.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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