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

Quentin Tarantino

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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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
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Brain Flow Kind Moments Myself Process Try Writing
If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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Accomplishment Artist Easy Myself Violence Work
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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Actor Collaboration Magic Myself
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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Character Myself Obligation
L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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Big Different Live Planet Yourself
Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
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Important Life Movie Scheme
My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Actor Director Job Myself Parents
I steal from every movie ever made.
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Day Movie Myself Steal Theft
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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Color Life Reality Terrible Violence Work
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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End Excitement Myself Play Song Way
The good ideas will survive.
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Goodness Ideas Inspirational One Liner Survive
If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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Circumstance Determination Movie Yourself
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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Boredom Game Movie Myself Stupidity Understand
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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Justice People Police Protest Shoot
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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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing

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