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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMovies 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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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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I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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