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.
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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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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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I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.
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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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