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.
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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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 I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.
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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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 am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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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 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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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