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.
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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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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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The good ideas will survive.
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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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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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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