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.
Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.
Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.
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