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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

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
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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Justice People Police Protest Shoot
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
If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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Character Job Myself Right Writing
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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Death Fun Genre Live Love Myself
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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
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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Celebration Invitation Job Party Yourself
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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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing
Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Death Dedication Determination Movie Myself
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
I steal from every movie ever made.
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Day Movie Myself Steal Theft
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
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Life Love Movie Myself Remember Time
I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.
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Bad Believe Level Movie Music Myself Rough
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Myself Novel Paper Pen Pieces
Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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Animal Eat Food Myself
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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Couple Emotion Enough Goodness Movie Night
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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Character Myself Obligation
One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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Correct Myself Politics Time
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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Crazy Man Movie Myself Old Planning
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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Afraid Artist Failure Greatness Life Reward Thinking
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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History Love Movie Myself Perspective See
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
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Confusion Emotion Movie Myself Start View
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

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

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