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.
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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The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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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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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 I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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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 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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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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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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My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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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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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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