Violence is fun, man.
QUENTIN TARANTINOViolence is fun, man.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMy parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOTo me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThat’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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOParticularly 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThere are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOMovies 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’m very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I’ve never really considered myself a writer.
QUENTIN TARANTINOWhen I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
QUENTIN TARANTINODon’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
QUENTIN TARANTINOWhen people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
QUENTIN TARANTINOMovies 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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOSomething stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI don’t think there’s anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards – in the life of an artist.
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