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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOAs a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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