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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThe good ideas will survive.
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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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I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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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 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’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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.
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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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The good ideas will survive.
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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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I steal from every movie ever made.
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I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.
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