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If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

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Quentin Tarantino
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 27
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If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
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I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
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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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