There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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 loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.
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A movie doesn’t have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that’s good enough.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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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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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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The good ideas will survive.
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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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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