Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.
QUENTIN TARANTINOIf 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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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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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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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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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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One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
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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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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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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.
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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’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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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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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 in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.
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I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them. It’s my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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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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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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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.
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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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