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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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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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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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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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 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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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’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.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.
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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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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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Violence is fun, man.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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