If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
QUENTIN TARANTINOParticularly 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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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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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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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