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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Henry Taylor

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Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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