I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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 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’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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 am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.
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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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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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The good ideas will survive.
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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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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Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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