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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.

Quentin Tarantino

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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Character Criticism Ignorance Job Myself Opinion Social Talk Writing
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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Education Feeling Interest Myself Stop
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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Death Easy Kill Solution Way
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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Bad Goodness People Response Writing
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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Clever Cool Emotion Greatness Win Yourself
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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Brain Flow Kind Moments Myself Process Try Writing
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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Crazy Man Movie Myself Old Planning
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Myself Story Strength Talk Thinking
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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Failure Gate Myself Reach Risk Talent Test Time
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Dog Personality Way
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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Life Love Movie Myself Remember Time
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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History Love Movie Myself Perspective See
That’s how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
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Deliver End Genre Love Myself Start Try Writing
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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Basic Goodness Home Professional Sound Thinking Yourself
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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Break Movie Myself People Rule Writing
If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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Accomplishment Artist Easy Myself Violence Work
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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Education Movie Myself People
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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Boredom Game Movie Myself Stupidity Understand
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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Bad Believe Level Movie Music Myself Rough
I don’t have to play the song all the way to the very end – I use it while it’s good and while it’s cool and while it’s exciting, and then I get out.
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End Excitement Myself Play Song Way
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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Hands Movie Music Myself Open Play Script Writing
When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Death Dedication Determination Movie Myself
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system.
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Age Children Parents Preserve System
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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Color Life Reality Terrible Violence Work
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Myself Novel Paper Pen Pieces
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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Confusion Emotion Movie Myself Start View

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.

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I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.

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