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 TARANTINOI 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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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’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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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 be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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