You know, my problem with most screenwriting is it is a blueprint. It's like they're afraid to write the damn thing. And I'm a writer. That's what I do. I want it to be written. I want it to work on the page first and foremost. So when I'm writing the script, I'm not thinking about the viewer watching the movie. I'm thinking about the reader reading the script.

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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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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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Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

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Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

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The good ideas will survive.

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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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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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I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

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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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In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

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When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

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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 wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

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Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

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I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.

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The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides

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As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they cared about themselves. But two, was actually at a certain point I just realized that I love movies too much to simply appear in them. I wanted the movies to be my movies.

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Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.

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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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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

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