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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOYou 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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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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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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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