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

Quentin Tarantino

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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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing
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
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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Focus Love Movie Offering People Yourself
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Myself Novel Paper Pen Pieces
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
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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Character Job Judgement Myself Point View
The good ideas will survive.
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Goodness Ideas Inspirational One Liner Survive
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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Audience Believe Elite Low Myself Person Thinking
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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Celebration Invitation Job Party Yourself
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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Failure Gate Myself Reach Risk Talent Test Time
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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Algorithm Enough Goodness Heart Movie Passion True Yourself
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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Goodness Happiness Myself Style Writing
All my movies are achingly personal.
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Heart Broken Movie Personal
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
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
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Life Love Movie Myself Remember Time
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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Important Life Movie Scheme

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