If you're a writer, you know we're all aspiring toward great dialogue. Dialogue that's tense, exciting, melodic, and full of subtext, or maybe punchy and raw.Many will point to writer/director Quentin Tarantino as an aspirational example, especially because his films have some of the most tense and heavy dialogue scenes in cinema.A few years back, Tarantino sat down for a town hall-style discussion with SiriusXM in which he discussed his writing and filmmaking. One participant asked about Tarantino’s influences in dialogue, which led him to discuss how he got started as a writer and where his style of dialogue comes from. Check it out. - YouTube www.youtube.com Tarantino said his acting background led him to a grasp of writing dialogue.“I used to be an actor, and I'd be in acting classes. Part of your thing in acting classes is to drum up scenes to do. I always wanted to do scenes from movies and stuff, and I didn't have access to any scripts or anything like that, so I would go and watch a movie. And then I could remember—I had a good memory—so I'd remember the scene. I'd go home and write the scene down, and whatever I didn't remember, I would just fill in the blanks myself. Well, little by little, I would just start filling in more blanks and more blanks and just kind of go off and do my own things and add to the scenes. That was my first attempt at writing dialogue with stuff...
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