My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
QUENTIN TARANTINOI 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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There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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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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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 in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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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’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Violence is fun, man.
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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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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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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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The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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The good ideas will survive.
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