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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy 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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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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The good ideas will survive.
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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 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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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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