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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOOne 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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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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 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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I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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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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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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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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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.
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