I’m basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIn real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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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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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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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 want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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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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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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As 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.
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The good ideas will survive.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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