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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
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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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A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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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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 don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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 my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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