I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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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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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 have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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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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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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I steal from every movie ever made.
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I don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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