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 TARANTINOJust 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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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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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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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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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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