If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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 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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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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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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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