I steal from every movie ever made.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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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’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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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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 considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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