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.
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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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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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.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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 good ideas will survive.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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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’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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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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If you want to make a movie, make it. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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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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All my movies are achingly personal.
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I’ve always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they’re basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I’d make for you at home.
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I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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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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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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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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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
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