L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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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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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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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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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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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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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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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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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 want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can’t do storyboards because I can’t really draw and that’s what they live and die on.
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