20 Screenwriting Tips from Quentin Tarantino

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OK. So we’ve seen ALL Quentin Tarantino interviews available on the internet. And here are the 20 most valuable, most controversial, most inspiring things Tarantino ever said. You don’t have to watch 100 hours of footage, you just need to watch this 20 minute video and you’ll learn everything Quentin Tarantino is all about. ENJOY!
1. Be a conductor of audience’s emotions.
2. Write your screenplay for the reader.
3. The only responsibility you have is to be true to your characters.
4. As a writer/director it’s your only job to have a vision.
5. Make it personal enough so you feel embarrassed to share it.
6. If you truly love cinema, you can’t make a bad movie.
7. Have fun with your writing.
8. It’s about the character first.
9. Read your script out loud to your friends.
10. Carefully craft your character, then let them lead you.
11. A story is something that constantly unfolds.
12. Treat suspense like a rubber band. The longer it can stretch the more suspenseful it is.
13. Give your characters moral choices to make and consequences based on their decisions.
14. Develop your own writing process that’s enjoyable for you.
15. Put clues to certain backstories and let each audience member decide what it means for them.
16. Make your script work as a piece of art on its own.
17. Make your own movies - that is your film school.
18. Rule out morality to have interesting characters.
19. The only way to get successful is by making a kick-ass movie.
20. Retire at the top of your game.
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[@Ivosferatus]

He's so good with his films. He's so good with his stories. He's so good with his words.

[@karenmink865]

"...It's not your job to create vision it's your job to have a vision !!!!... He is so deep

[@karenmink865]

" because its so much fun " LMAO i love him so much .. BRILLIANT !!! " Iwant to play you as my audience I want to be the conductor and you're my Orchestra" Love It !!!!

[@dbturbonub2536]

When QT is talking about how Aldo The Apache having the rope burn scar around his neck, when I 1st seen Inglorious Basterds and that scene, I immediately thought of 'Hang Em High" and in my imagination, I had my own scenario of how Aldo got it! The fact QT didn't ever tell us how or really even hint as to how he got it, is truly why I love his style! Its his movie, but he lets us make it our own personal, intimate film alongside him as well!

[@ARKHAMxMaverick]

I could listen to him talk about movies all day.

[@kingink7964]

ur gonna love the podcast he's doing with roger avery then

[@Bobbybillybillbob]

Tarantino will go down as my favorite director. All of his movies are fun, enjoyable, well written, well cast, great re watching value, structure, set pieces, costumes need I go on? This man is on of the number one film fans and it shows in all his work

[@ETA-Pictures]

I love his idea of creating these characters and letting the dialogue flow from them. I find as a writer it's easier said than done, but if you put enough time in creating characters it should be doable.

[@chinmayadamodlekar2669]

I just can't explain how happy I am looking at this channel building over a year. I have been one of the earliest subscriber of this channel and it has helped me a lot. Thank you very much!❤️

[@OutstandingScreenplays]

Thank you! It means a lot! 💟✅💯🙌

[@ReportingEligiblePodcast]

18:34 This is a prime example of "I made it but don't get your hopes up because there isn't enough room for the booth of us" and a Quentin shutting that shit down.

[@gavingleemonex3898]

Going to that blank piece of paper is the single most soothing task that a fellow could ever dream of performing.

[@yvoncormier9762]

"At 12 years old, maybe you couldn't tell the difference, but I could." Q. Tarantino

[@filmmaker610]

Many excellent tips all around. QT is one of my favorite writer-director.

[@cycy8699]

didn't think just compiling clips could make for such a good video

[@fazrikurniawan9643]

I love so much the advice in 6:00 minutes, truly deep advice

[@diederikkoekemoer9310]

What a Legend of contradiction in film. A GOAT in his niche ❤

[@hassanbhatti581]

When you watch someone talk about movies with such vigour and enthusiasm and energy it’s really inspiring

[@dr.arvindtiwari7761]

This video has been a really great learning experience. People pay a shit ton of money to go to writing school and learn from some random teacher but I get to learn from the best. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@philtasticcomicsandart]

Very cool montage and clips. Thank you for sharing this

[@annettesaldana8184]

Kill Bill volume 3!!! That's awesome. Could you imagine?

[@manny_ceja_91]

I never thought about that. If I'm ever having writers block, all I have to do is float around my heated pool for a few hours! Haha joking aside, these are great bits of advice.

[@CamRebires]

18:47 the reaction of Rodriguez haha, "can't argue with that"

[@storywala88]

Great tips ❤️ Great video 👌🏽

[@ShEDDiNgmYSkiN]

I think Quentin should start writing books after he's done with his last film. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novelization was absolutely brilliant!

[@hiddensolace1063]

Cinema Speculation!

[@williampowell3378]

Yeah

[@TheLordIsFaithful0894]

Can you do a video where the screen writer is writing to a movie that is told through narration

[@satwiksv2749]

Pure gold

[@danishjs]

♥️ thanku to the channel for all this education 🙏🏻

[@OutstandingScreenplays]

💟💯

[@matthewgramitt5007]

Quentin says he would consider making his last movie be a Kill Bill 3, but the movie that I really would like him to make before he retires from filmmaking is…what becomes of Jules after he had his revelation to change and no longer be an assassin. I know, the TV show Barry kind of tired to show something similar, but we have no idea what direction Jules might go, outside of the first thing that popped into his head when asked, that he would walk the earth like Caine in Kung Fu. But would he really? There’s always a gravity-like pull that happens when people try to break out of their habits. But that doesn’t have to result specifically in being tempted to continue assassinating people. Not unless, maybe, he kind of “psychologically assassinates” them. 28 ish years later, I’m still rooting for Jules and I’d be curious to learn what became of him…truthfully, much more than I’m curious to know what became of the bride and/or her daughter. (Though I have to believe that if QT really wants to make that film that he’ll likely take it in a direction which I’m not imagining).

[@Naughty-jq2gg]

Thank you 🥰🥰😍

[@jellestarremans5990]

I think Tarantino is the best screenwriter that ever walked the earth. Also the paperback from the screenplay of reservoir dogs and pulp fiction arrived today. And now a new video from this amazing channel, also Tarantino related. Thanks for making this helpfull videos🤗

[@paulkareta]

Because it's so much fun Jane

[@bullymonk710]

He is the greatest cinephile I've ever seen.

[@Me-gs3uu]

I’m such a fan of his, that I have already seen every one of these interviews. It’s a little embarrassing xD

[@harryom3497]

Thanks! I was stuck from 2 days. Now it's time to rise like #Batman

[@kasperroth7296]

Be OBSESSED with what you do, and you’ll be this guy.

[@manjunathb4809]

Iam the only one who wants Quentin to write graphic novels 😊😜

[@TomEyeTheSFMguy]

No you're not. Not the only one.

[@bunchabull5324]

I'm very late but he wrote a django/zorro crossover comic

[@AllPurposeWater]

there are some django comics out there!

[@JoaoPaulo-lr6wh]

Thats a Bingo 🤟

[@sammysmellysack]

He wrote a once upon a time in Hollywood book

[@rainerbuechse6923]

He's the man!

[@mireillelebeau2513]

I'm lazy so I love "the only responsibility you have is to be true to your characters."

[@salvatorederosa3106]

Epic.

[@avt484]

Any one else teared up when Quentin talked about his last film? 😢

[@chunkysalsa6264]

Seeing Quentin argue with an angry Karen about violence in movies is the funniest thing in the world to me.

[@Steger13]

Me i create, imagine and see movies in my mind but i don't know how to write it down .. 😕

[@user-nr5tj4iv8l]

Потому что это весело)))

[@constantinvasiliev2065]

So intelligent

[@sergeybagrov8624]

👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@PhillipGDavis]

💯💪🏿✊🏿❣️

[@akashmadhavan711]

Which video is the part where he says it's your job to have a vision.

[@whobitmyname]

I think that KRON 4 lady might be the worst person alive.

[@ulrikegerlach6058]

🤩👍👏👏👏

[@MrGreen-ci2mm]

what's the song?

[@justme-cr3xe]

He'll never see this but here I go...Marty Robbins song "El Paso."

[@canonjean-mignon4985]

Kill Bill 3 would be interesting

[@OutstandingScreenplays]

Thanks for watching the WHOLE video! 💟✅💯😉😍

[@canonjean-mignon4985]

@@OutstandingScreenplays thanks for the upload :) I‘ve watched the others, too.

[@TomEyeTheSFMguy]

Yeah, but that story's been told. No need to tell any more of it.

[@nicelooser]

If he actually sticks to only making 10 films then I hope he makes one more original

[@captainspaulding7476]

18:40

[@thatguy779]

It’s sad to imagine being in an age post-Tarantino, but man. His shit doesn’t age a day

[@Johnconno]

'Steal from the best, then ruin it.'

[@thirdhandlv4231]

Quating stuff is already a sign of stupidity, but the quote not making any sense is even worse.

[@nolaanderson8770]

Whomever failed to name this video "Q Tips" needs to partner up with an imaginative person! (if you leave out the "-" between the Q & the T it's not trademark infringement, since consumers are not going to confuse your video for cotton swabs)

[@johnpunchradio]

He's made some of the best movies of all time and I love them, but I get the feeling he is annoying as hell to be around.

[@jsavak99]

I think he's wrong though . you need some talent or technical skill . Making a film is very hard work

[@TheArchangel68]

Brad Pitt has a rope burn that isn't explained in that movie because while Quentin was writing it he watched Hang Em High with Clint Eastwood from 1973 and copied that like he always copies stuff. It's why I'm not a bit fan. I like the first 2 movies a lot, That's about it, No characters do not "come from inside him". Nor do his stories. They come from other movies. he's good at dialog, period

[@8250764]

Hater

[@GODSREAL]

You're speaking to me. I can't play pretend, but I can tell the truth.

[@mcdick700]

never use that kind of intro ever again that was awful

[@asaphsarmy2637]

I'm the guy who is still wondering what the fuck was in the briefcase... and that's the way I want it to stay!!! I don't ever want to know because it's more fun to me not knowing!!! I want my first movie to be totally void of as many of the "rules" to making a great movie as I can leave out, but I gotta learn the "rules" first so that I know what not to do and so that no one can call me the dumbass who doesn't know what he's doing!!! I'm autistic so of course I'm going to do it totally different than most people would!!!!!!!