As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Quentin TarantinoRead
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
Interpretation
The quote reflects an ambition to exceed what others anticipate and deliver outstanding results.
Quentin Tarantino expresses a desire to surpass not just expectations but to astonish and impress others through his work. This ambition signifies a commitment to excellence and a refusal to settle for mediocrity, which is vital for achieving success in any creative or professional endeavor.
In practice
In a motivational speech at a business conference.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
To call Clive Barker a 'horror novelist' would be like calling the Beatles a 'garage band'... He is the great imaginer of our time. He knows not only our greatest fears, but also what delights us, what turns us on, and what is truly holy in the world. Haunting, bizarre, beautiful.
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.
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.
My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.
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