Whether you're an aspiring writer (in any industry) or just a movie-fan, everyone is interested in the insight Quentin Tarantino has on the topic. After all, he's a master of his craft. Quite simply, no one writes the way he does. And his work has influenced just about every aspect of pop culture, including The Avengers. But with his crazy action, stylized dialogue, and flashy aesthetic, it's hard to believe that his movies come from a deeply personal place.

But they do.

Very much so.

Here's how and why Quentin writes personally and how he hides it all from us.

His Films Are More Personal Than We Think

During a fantastic interview with Ella Taylor from The Village Voice, Quentin revealed that his films are a lot more personal than they may appear. This was when Quentin was promoting his superb war-flick, Inglourious Basterds. And the topic of just how personal his films are came up when Ella asked him if his aging affects his work.

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"By the time people hit their mid-forties, their parents are growing older, and the more tragic side of life seems to come out more," Ella said. "Does that affect your work?"

This is how Quentin responded: "My movies are painfully personal, but I’m never trying to let you know how personal they are. It’s my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. Kill Bill is a very personal movie."

Of course, it's challenging to see how Kill Bill Volume 1 or 2 is all that personal. But that's precisely what Quentin was intending. He wanted to create something that people would love and want to watch over and over again. He didn't want them peering into his soul. However, the fact that he has soul in his films is something that absolutely sets his work apart from most. While he makes entertaining films, Quentin Tarantino's work is undeniably authentic. We may not always be able to put our finger on why, but we always know it.

We see it in the way his characters communicate with each other. We see it when he makes an unconventional story choice that actually feels real within the world he's created. And we see it in the themes he explores, even if they anger other filmmakers like Spike Lee.

Every decision Quentin makes is personal. He is highly detailed oriented and utterly specific. But, of course, this just makes us ask the question why.... However, Quentin won't tell us...

But Why Won't Quentin Reveal Why His Films Are So Personal?

The main reason, well, it's "not anyone's business", so he claims.

During his amazing interview with Ella Taylor at The Village Voice, Quentin said, "It’s my job to invest in it and hide it inside of genre. Maybe there are metaphors for things that are going on in my life, or maybe it’s just straight up how it is. But it’s buried in genre, so it’s not a 'how I grew up to write the novel' kind of piece."

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However, Quentin did say that whatever is going on with him at the time of the writing always finds its way into the work he creates... In some form or another.

"Whatever’s going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece," he told Ella Taylor. "If that doesn’t happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I’m writing Inglourious Basterds and I’m in love with a girl and we break up, that’s going to find its way into the piece. That pain, the way my aspirations were dashed, that’s going to find its way in there. So I’m not doing a James L. Brooks—I loved how personal Spanglish was, but I thought that where Sofia Coppola got praised for being personal, he got criticized for being personal in the exact same aching way. But that doesn’t interest me, at least not now, to do my little story about my little situation. The more I hide it, the more revealing I can be."

Perhaps the most interesting element of how Quentin Tarantino writes his scripts is the fact that he does choose genre stories to explore. By this he means "westerns", "revenge stories", "war films" etc. So, as Ella Taylor said in her interview with Quentin, it's often that Quentin doesn't even know when he's actually writing about himself.... It just comes out in the writing...

"Most of it should be subconscious, if the work is coming from a special place," he said. "If I’m thinking and maneuvering that pen around, then that’s me doing it. I really should let the characters take it. But the characters are different facets of me, or maybe they’re not me, but they are coming from me. So when they take it, that’s just me letting my subconscious rip."

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