As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Quentin TarantinoRead
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the subjective nature of art and how different viewers can have unique interpretations.
Quentin Tarantino's quote highlights the idea that art, including films, is open to personal interpretation. When millions watch a movie, each viewer brings their own experiences, emotions, and perspectives, leading to a multitude of interpretations that enrich the viewing experience and underscore the beauty of subjective expression in art.
In practice
During a film discussion panel to illustrate diverse interpretations of a movie.
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.
I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it's more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it's also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do.
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
Good directing is good writing and good casting.
I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.
Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.
And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.
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