I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf 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.
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The good ideas will survive.
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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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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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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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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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I 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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