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.
QUENTIN TARANTINODogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.
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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 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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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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 don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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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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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
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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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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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 actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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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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One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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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 steal from every movie ever made.
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