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And one of the fun things is is when I'm done with everything, like now, for instance. Quentin Tarantino writing fun thinking 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. Quentin Tarantino stupid average football I'm not a huge big fan of music video. Quentin Tarantino video bigs fans I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in. Quentin Tarantino play writing song 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. Quentin Tarantino soundtracks tape home I am doing what I'm doing, and if you don't like it, don't go see it. Quentin Tarantino ifs I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer. Quentin Tarantino writing way thinking There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun of them, that you almost couldn't take them seriously from that point on. That's why only Westerns that had the stink of Watergate or Vietnam could be taken seriously. There were so few Westerns made since then, from the Eighties on, that the few directors who did were so pleased with themselves and so happy to have the opportunity that they got lost in visuals, they got lost in the vistas and the pretty scenery. Quentin Tarantino taken hurt fun I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to it. You can put it on metal, and it has this vividness. Because, normally, what they use in Hollywood is this stuff that looks like strawberry pancake syrup or raspberry pancake syrup. Quentin Tarantino style quality blood You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me. Quentin Tarantino daughter mother father
