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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.

Quentin Tarantino

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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Education Movie Myself People
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Joke Name Yourself
My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Actor Director Job Myself Parents
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Confusion Emotion Movie Myself Start View
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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Celebration Invitation Job Party Yourself
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Character Yourself
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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Character Job Judgement Myself Point View
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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Death Fun Genre Live Love Myself
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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Death Easy Kill Solution Way
All my movies are achingly personal.
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Heart Broken Movie Personal
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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Death Enough God Movie Myself Pay Position Religion
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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Age Children Parents Preserve System
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Myself Novel Paper Pen Pieces
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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Break Movie Myself People Rule Writing
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Reveal Secret Truth Voice Writing Yourself
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Dog Personality Way
One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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Correct Myself Politics Time
I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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Afraid Artist Failure Greatness Life Reward Thinking
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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Crazy Man Movie Myself Old Planning
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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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
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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Important Life Movie Scheme
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Fun Oneself Violence
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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Education Feeling Interest Myself Stop
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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Failure Gate Myself Reach Risk Talent Test Time
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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Bad Believe Level Movie Music Myself Rough

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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