As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Quentin TarantinoRead
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
Interpretation
Quentin Tarantino compares the revolutionary impacts of Godard in film and Bob Dylan in music.
This quote highlights the transformative influence that both Jean-Luc Godard and Bob Dylan had on their respective crafts. Tarantino asserts that just as Dylan reinvented music through innovative songwriting and stylistic choices, Godard reshaped cinema with his unique approach to storytelling and filmmaking techniques, marking a pivotal shift in the artistic landscape of both mediums.
In practice
During a film studies lecture, discussing the impact of Godard and Dylan on modern art forms.
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.
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.
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.
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