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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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 my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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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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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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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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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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Violence is fun, man.
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Movies 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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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