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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOSomething stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.
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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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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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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 be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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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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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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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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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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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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