I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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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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You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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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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Violence is fun, man.
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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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The good ideas will survive.
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I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
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