My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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 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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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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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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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