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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.

Quentin Tarantino

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
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Myself Novel Paper Pen Pieces
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Computer Poetry Writing
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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Big Different Live Planet Yourself
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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Age Children Parents Preserve System
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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History Love Movie Myself Perspective See
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’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing
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 want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Expectation Movie Myself Surprise Top
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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Communication Deal Freedom Language Myself Prison Stay Word Writing
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
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
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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Crazy Man Movie Myself Old Planning
One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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Correct Myself Politics Time
All my movies are achingly personal.
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Heart Broken Movie Personal

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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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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