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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

Quentin Tarantino

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
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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Character Job Myself Right Writing
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Answer Myself Question Scare
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Computer Poetry Writing
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Expectation Movie Myself Surprise Top
I’m basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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Learning Myself People Quick Win
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
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
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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Enough Goodness Love Movie Yourself
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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Heart People Reading Thinking Voice Writing Yourself
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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Bad Goodness People Response Writing
The good ideas will survive.
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Goodness Ideas Inspirational One Liner Survive
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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
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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Boredom Game Movie Myself Stupidity Understand
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
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.
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Circumstance Determination Movie Yourself

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