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.
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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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Violence is fun, man.
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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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I steal from every movie ever made.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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