Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI’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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Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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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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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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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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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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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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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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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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