Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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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 actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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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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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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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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 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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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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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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