The good ideas will survive.
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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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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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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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’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 you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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