As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Quentin TarantinoRead
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
Interpretation
Creating a film on your own, even without funds, teaches invaluable lessons in filmmaking.
Quentin Tarantino emphasizes that the hands-on experience of making a film independently, despite financial constraints, can provide more practical education than formal film schools. This process allows you to learn not only about the technical aspects of filmmaking but also about problem-solving, creativity, and the drive necessary to complete a project.
In practice
This quote can inspire aspiring filmmakers at a film festival discussion.
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.
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.
The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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