I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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