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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.

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Quentin Tarantino
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 27
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Quentin Jerome Tarantino
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The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.
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I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine friend. Robert Rodriguez is a genuine friend. Rick Richard Linklater is a genuine friend. Eli Roth is a genuine friend. And so is Edgar Wright.
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I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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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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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.
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I'm basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
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The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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