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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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 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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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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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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