To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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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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Particularly 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.
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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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