If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI steal from every movie ever made.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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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Violence is fun, man.
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I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
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Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It’s when a scene works emotionally and it’s cool and clever, then it’s great. That’s what you want.
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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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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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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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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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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Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
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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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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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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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