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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.

Quentin Tarantino

If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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Accomplishment Artist Easy Myself Violence Work
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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Crazy Man Movie Myself Old Planning
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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Afraid Artist Failure Greatness Life Reward Thinking
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
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Education Feeling Interest Myself Stop
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Expectation Movie Myself Surprise Top
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Character Yourself
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.
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Life Love Movie Myself Remember Time
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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Circumstance Determination Movie Yourself
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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Focus Love Movie Offering People Yourself
It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
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Celebration Invitation Job Party Yourself
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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Audience Believe Elite Low Myself Person Thinking
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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Clever Cool Emotion Greatness Win Yourself
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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Boredom Game Movie Myself Stupidity Understand
I’m basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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Learning Myself People Quick Win
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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Couple Emotion Enough Goodness Movie Night
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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Actor Collaboration Magic Myself
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking
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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Important Life Movie Scheme
Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn’t mean I’m anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
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Justice People Police Protest Shoot
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Answer Myself Question Scare
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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Communication Deal Freedom Language Myself Prison Stay Word Writing
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Reveal Secret Truth Voice Writing Yourself
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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Break Movie Myself People Rule Writing
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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Fun Oneself Violence
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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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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Age Children Parents Preserve System
To 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.
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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing

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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