Quentin Tarantino Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.”
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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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“I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.”
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“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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“To me, truth is the big thing. Constantly you're writing something and you get to a place where your characters could go this way or that and I just can't lie. The characters have gotta be true to themselves.”
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“If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.”
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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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“In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.”
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“If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.”
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“I just don't feel the whole white guilt and pussy-footing around race issues. I'm completely above all that. I've never worried about what anyone might think of me 'cause I've always believed that the true of heart recognize the true of heart.”
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“You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.”
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“I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.”
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“To me, America is just another market.”
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“I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.”
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“The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.”
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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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“To me, torture would be watching sports on television.”
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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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“My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.”
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“Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.”
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“If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.”
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“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.”
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“One of the things about writing a novel is you can do it any way you want. It's your voice that's important and I see absolutely no reason why a screenplay can't be the same. It makes it a hell of a lot easier when you're the writer and the director.”
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“Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.”
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“To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.”
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“I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.”
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