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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More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The good ideas will survive.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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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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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.
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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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