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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.

Quentin Tarantino

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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Brain Flow Kind Moments Myself Process Try Writing
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
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
You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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Algorithm Enough Goodness Heart Movie Passion True Yourself
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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Character Myself Obligation
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Character Yourself
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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Communication Deal Freedom Language Myself Prison Stay Word Writing
It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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Celebration Invitation Job Party Yourself
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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Bad Goodness People Response Writing
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Answer Myself Question Scare
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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
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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Clever Cool Emotion Greatness Win Yourself
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Computer Poetry Writing
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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History Love Movie Myself Perspective See
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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Life Love Movie Myself Remember Time

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