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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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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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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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L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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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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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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 want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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