"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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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.

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