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.
QUENTIN TARANTINODogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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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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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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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 believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don’t like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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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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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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