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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Quentin Tarantino

I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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Audience Believe Elite Low Myself Person Thinking
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Expectation Movie Myself Surprise Top
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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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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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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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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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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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.
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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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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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