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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.

Quentin Tarantino

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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Clever Cool Emotion Greatness Win Yourself
I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
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Basic Goodness Home Professional Sound Thinking Yourself
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Character Yourself
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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Bad Goodness People Response Writing
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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Important Life Movie Scheme
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing
If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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Accomplishment Artist Easy Myself Violence Work
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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Communication Deal Freedom Language Myself Prison Stay Word Writing
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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Failure Gate Myself Reach Risk Talent Test Time
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking
The good ideas will survive.
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Goodness Ideas Inspirational One Liner Survive
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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Focus Love Movie Offering People Yourself
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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Boredom Game Movie Myself Stupidity Understand
Violence is fun, man.
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Fun Man Violence
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Expectation Movie Myself Surprise Top
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Myself Novel Paper Pen Pieces

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