When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
QUENTIN TARANTINOEmotion 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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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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Violence is fun, man.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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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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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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