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Quentin Tarantino

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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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Computer Poetry Writing
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
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Fun Oneself Violence
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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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
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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Crazy Man Movie Myself Old Planning
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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Death Enough God Movie Myself Pay Position Religion
If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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Accomplishment Artist Easy Myself Violence Work
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing
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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Learning Myself People Quick Win
I steal from every movie ever made.
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Day Movie Myself Steal Theft
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
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Answer Myself Question Scare
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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History Love Movie Myself Perspective See
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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Actor Collaboration Magic Myself
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

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