I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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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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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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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 don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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