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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.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.
I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.
When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.
L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.
I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.
I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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.
It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
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.
There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.