If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.

Quentin Tarantino

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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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Correct Myself Politics Time
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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Big Different Live Planet Yourself
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
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Answer Myself Question Scare
Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
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Heart People Reading Thinking Voice Writing 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
Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
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Character Yourself
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
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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Character Job Myself Right Writing
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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Death Easy Kill Solution Way
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
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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Demand Myself Right Thinking Truth Writing
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 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
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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Goodness Happiness Myself Style Writing
You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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Joke Name Yourself
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
In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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Bad Day Life Perspective Reality
I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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Audience Believe Elite Low Myself Person Thinking
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
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Character Myself Obligation
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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Death Fun Genre Live Love Myself
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
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
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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Algorithm Enough Goodness Heart Movie Passion True Yourself
I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Himself Movie Myself Writing
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
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Computer Poetry Writing
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
I steal from every movie ever made.
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Day Movie Myself Steal Theft

If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.

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