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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.

Quentin Tarantino

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
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Death Dedication Determination Movie Myself
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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Education Movie Myself People
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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Bad Believe Level Movie Music Myself Rough
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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Clever Cool Emotion Greatness Win Yourself
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
All my movies are achingly personal.
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Heart Broken Movie Personal
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Confusion Emotion Movie Myself Start View
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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Afraid Artist Failure Greatness Life Reward Thinking
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Joke Name Yourself
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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Character Myself Obligation
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
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing
My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Actor Director Job Myself Parents
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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Color Life Reality Terrible Violence Work
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking

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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