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.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Hard-earned achievement brings a sense of self-worth. Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God. A consecrated life is filled with work, sometimes repetitive, sometimes menial, sometimes unappreciated but always work that improves, orders, sustains, lifts, ministers, aspires.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
Without new ideas success can become stale
If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.
I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.
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