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.
QUENTIN TARANTINOThere are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
More Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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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 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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.
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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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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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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