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 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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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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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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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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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 actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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 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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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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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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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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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