Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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The good ideas will survive.
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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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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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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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