If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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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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 actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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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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Violence is fun, man.
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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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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.
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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 only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
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