When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they wonโt allow their characters to go down those roads... Iโve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and Iโll follow them.
Quentin TarantinoI mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made - whether they meant to make it or not.
Quentin TarantinoThere are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
Quentin TarantinoSometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.
Quentin Tarantino