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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:11,600 Encoded by Dr. B 2 00:00:14,602 --> 00:00:16,645 Who do you know right now that's dangerous? 3 00:00:16,645 --> 00:00:19,899 I got a friend and he and I love to fuck shit up. 4 00:00:19,899 --> 00:00:22,485 There is no one like Quentin. 5 00:00:23,653 --> 00:00:24,820 There's Quentin. 6 00:00:28,532 --> 00:00:30,076 He makes a different kind of movie. 7 00:00:31,535 --> 00:00:33,537 You're gonna land the word nigger a hundred 8 00:00:33,537 --> 00:00:35,456 and ten times on Christmas? 9 00:00:37,541 --> 00:00:39,668 Quentin loves strong female characters. 10 00:00:41,545 --> 00:00:44,340 Brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing. 11 00:00:47,218 --> 00:00:49,470 From the mind of Quentin Tarantino, 12 00:00:50,429 --> 00:00:52,973 he really is a powerhouse of creativity. 13 00:00:52,973 --> 00:00:53,933 It's Quentin's World. 14 00:00:53,933 --> 00:00:54,850 It's his baby. 15 00:00:54,850 --> 00:00:56,143 He wrote it. 16 00:00:56,143 --> 00:00:56,936 He's a lightning rod. 17 00:00:56,936 --> 00:00:58,562 He's absolutely unique. 18 00:00:58,562 --> 00:01:00,356 He's the voice of his generation. 19 00:01:03,484 --> 00:01:05,403 It's the end of an era of Quentin 20 00:01:05,403 --> 00:01:07,113 and the Weinstein Company. 21 00:01:07,113 --> 00:01:08,697 He's not gonna fade out. 22 00:01:08,697 --> 00:01:10,157 This is why he talks about making ten. 23 00:01:11,450 --> 00:01:15,121 Quentin is a champion of the female. 24 00:01:16,372 --> 00:01:17,790 And he's just the build, 25 00:01:17,790 --> 00:01:19,625 but he gets the opportunity to do this. 26 00:01:35,182 --> 00:01:38,978 And then there are the movies. 27 00:01:38,978 --> 00:01:43,190 Now, that's what he says about himself, 28 00:01:43,190 --> 00:01:45,276 about how he sees the world, 29 00:01:45,276 --> 00:01:49,947 his very purpose of existence. 30 00:01:49,947 --> 00:01:52,616 Quentin's sort of a natural born filmmaker. 31 00:01:52,616 --> 00:01:54,118 It's his passion. 32 00:01:54,118 --> 00:01:57,455 It's where he connects with the full range of 33 00:01:57,455 --> 00:01:58,747 human feeling. 34 00:01:58,747 --> 00:02:00,416 And I think that you really see the through line 35 00:02:00,416 --> 00:02:02,918 of his fascinations as a human being running 36 00:02:02,918 --> 00:02:04,837 all the way through what matters to him, 37 00:02:04,837 --> 00:02:06,922 looking at race in America... 38 00:02:06,922 --> 00:02:09,508 ...looking at what is romance... 39 00:02:09,508 --> 00:02:11,051 ...commitment... 40 00:02:11,051 --> 00:02:11,969 ...honor... 41 00:02:11,969 --> 00:02:13,637 ...betrayal, 42 00:02:13,637 --> 00:02:14,972 loyalty... 43 00:02:14,972 --> 00:02:16,974 ...and people having to 44 00:02:16,974 --> 00:02:17,933 do the right thing. 45 00:02:21,770 --> 00:02:24,773 It's for sure the end of an era. The Weinsteins 46 00:02:24,773 --> 00:02:27,318 have been the distributor of every single film of 47 00:02:27,318 --> 00:02:28,736 ...his in the United States. 48 00:02:28,736 --> 00:02:30,488 Eight movies, all of them, 49 00:02:30,488 --> 00:02:31,739 very successful. 50 00:02:33,365 --> 00:02:35,117 He surely is immortality. 51 00:02:45,503 --> 00:02:48,130 A friend of mine, he turned me onto Quentin Tarantino,... 52 00:02:48,130 --> 00:02:48,631 ...who was 53 00:02:48,631 --> 00:02:51,592 stuffing video boxes at Imperial Entertainment. 54 00:02:51,592 --> 00:02:53,886 And we had this meeting and he seemed like kind of 55 00:02:53,886 --> 00:02:55,304 an overzealous geek. 56 00:02:55,304 --> 00:02:56,972 Pardon, pardon me. 57 00:02:56,972 --> 00:02:57,681 But guess what? 58 00:02:57,681 --> 00:02:59,308 He had the talent to back it up. 59 00:02:59,308 --> 00:03:01,143 He would sleep on my couch. 60 00:03:01,143 --> 00:03:03,062 I don't think he had a car at the time 61 00:03:03,062 --> 00:03:04,438 and flat broke. 62 00:03:04,438 --> 00:03:06,524 "I want to get in the movie business. 63 00:03:06,524 --> 00:03:07,608 Do I think I can write? 64 00:03:07,608 --> 00:03:10,319 I'm gonna give it a stab, 'cause all it takes is 65 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:11,195 a pen and paper." 66 00:03:11,195 --> 00:03:11,862 I asked him about 67 00:03:11,862 --> 00:03:12,571 writing on a computer. 68 00:03:12,571 --> 00:03:13,989 He said, "You can't write on a computer." 69 00:03:13,989 --> 00:03:14,657 I'm like, "Why not?" 70 00:03:14,657 --> 00:03:16,283 He's like, "You can't write poetry on a computer. 71 00:03:16,283 --> 00:03:18,035 He's like, "My pen is my antennae to God. 72 00:03:18,035 --> 00:03:18,786 That's how I write. 73 00:03:18,786 --> 00:03:20,037 It just- it just flows. 74 00:03:20,037 --> 00:03:21,080 It's just a receiver." 75 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,749 He has a red pen and a black pen, felt tip, 76 00:03:23,749 --> 00:03:26,627 and yellow legal pad, and dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit. 77 00:03:26,627 --> 00:03:27,336 That was it. 78 00:03:27,336 --> 00:03:29,672 Five minutes later, he's got dialogue that would 79 00:03:29,672 --> 00:03:31,924 take some people an entire lifetime to write. 80 00:03:31,924 --> 00:03:35,344 I think Quentin basically writes novels 81 00:03:35,344 --> 00:03:38,722 and then when he's directing, he's basically adapting 82 00:03:38,722 --> 00:03:40,349 his own novel to the screen. 83 00:03:40,349 --> 00:03:42,643 A lot of different things are gonna happen. 84 00:03:42,643 --> 00:03:44,937 It's a roller coaster ride. Oh, yeah, baby. 85 00:03:44,937 --> 00:03:46,730 You're gonna be horrified. 86 00:03:46,730 --> 00:03:47,356 (groans) 87 00:03:47,356 --> 00:03:49,900 You're gonna feel relief. Then say something. 88 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:52,861 Something. 89 00:03:52,861 --> 00:03:54,405 You're gonna feel romance. 90 00:03:57,157 --> 00:04:00,953 Quentin is above all a romantic. 91 00:04:00,953 --> 00:04:03,205 First script, True Romance, 92 00:04:03,205 --> 00:04:05,583 Clarence saving Alabama is the beginning of rescuing 93 00:04:05,583 --> 00:04:08,210 the princess that really pays off in Django coming 94 00:04:08,210 --> 00:04:09,878 back to rescue Broomhilda. 95 00:04:13,841 --> 00:04:17,595 The first script of his I read was Natural Born Killers. 96 00:04:17,595 --> 00:04:18,679 And when I read that I went, 97 00:04:18,679 --> 00:04:21,390 whoa, this guy's amazing. 98 00:04:21,390 --> 00:04:22,891 Then I read True Romance. 99 00:04:22,891 --> 00:04:24,310 I went, what the? 100 00:04:24,310 --> 00:04:25,477 What's going on. 101 00:04:25,477 --> 00:04:26,937 What's wrong with Hollywood? 102 00:04:26,937 --> 00:04:28,022 Where is everybody? 103 00:04:28,022 --> 00:04:30,733 You'd take home a slog of twenty scripts a weekend 104 00:04:30,733 --> 00:04:36,030 and you're looking for that thing that jumps off 105 00:04:36,030 --> 00:04:37,907 the page where the characters are alive, 106 00:04:37,907 --> 00:04:39,700 where the dialogue doesn't feel trite. 107 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:41,535 Every kid wants to give you a script 108 00:04:41,535 --> 00:04:43,245 and you- you- you with the best intentions, 109 00:04:43,245 --> 00:04:44,580 you go, God, I hope this is good. 110 00:04:44,580 --> 00:04:46,665 And then by page two it's like turning like 111 00:04:46,665 --> 00:04:49,043 (groans) oh, I can't turn the page. 112 00:04:49,043 --> 00:04:51,378 This is really just terrible. 113 00:04:51,378 --> 00:04:52,546 Not with Quentin. 114 00:04:52,546 --> 00:04:53,213 No way. 115 00:04:53,547 --> 00:04:55,841 Oh, they're brilliant screenplays. 116 00:04:55,841 --> 00:04:59,219 Can you imagine having to sell those to pay your rent? 117 00:04:59,219 --> 00:05:02,014 I mean, wow, you know. 118 00:05:02,014 --> 00:05:05,184 (inhales) I read a lot. 119 00:05:05,184 --> 00:05:07,394 (exhales) Especially about things 120 00:05:07,394 --> 00:05:08,270 about history. 121 00:05:10,606 --> 00:05:12,691 I find that shit fascinating. 122 00:05:14,318 --> 00:05:15,027 Here's a fact. 123 00:05:15,027 --> 00:05:17,237 I don't know whether you know or not. 124 00:05:17,237 --> 00:05:17,821 Well... 125 00:05:21,158 --> 00:05:25,204 Sicilians were spawned by niggers. 126 00:05:28,916 --> 00:05:33,170 Uh, come again? 127 00:05:33,587 --> 00:05:35,923 (laughs) 128 00:05:35,923 --> 00:05:37,633 You look at the stuff that Quentin writes. 129 00:05:37,633 --> 00:05:39,677 If it was on stage, he'd have the Pulitzer. 130 00:05:39,677 --> 00:05:40,719 You know, because it's movies, 131 00:05:40,719 --> 00:05:41,887 everyone said, "Oh, he was in a video store. 132 00:05:41,887 --> 00:05:42,346 He stole." 133 00:05:42,346 --> 00:05:44,765 Which of course launched a thousand people working 134 00:05:44,765 --> 00:05:45,557 in video stores going, 135 00:05:45,557 --> 00:05:46,892 "Oh, I'm gonna be the next Tarantino." 136 00:05:46,892 --> 00:05:48,686 Well, literally, there's Quentin 137 00:05:48,686 --> 00:05:49,812 and there's everyone else. 138 00:05:50,938 --> 00:05:53,399 There's great stories, great characters. 139 00:05:53,399 --> 00:05:54,817 Later on in the story... 140 00:05:54,817 --> 00:05:57,027 Clearly in True Romance, 141 00:05:57,027 --> 00:05:59,571 Clarence is a surrogate for Quentin. 142 00:06:00,489 --> 00:06:03,993 You see his love of cinema present in his voice 143 00:06:03,993 --> 00:06:05,911 as he expertly carries you through his films. 144 00:06:05,911 --> 00:06:07,913 (overlapping) Oh! Ooh. You have three kung-fu moves. 145 00:06:07,913 --> 00:06:10,958 In the original draft, his version of True Romance, 146 00:06:10,958 --> 00:06:12,668 it was non-linear storytelling. 147 00:06:12,668 --> 00:06:14,628 The audience is ahead of the characters 148 00:06:14,628 --> 00:06:16,088 and on the edge of their seat 149 00:06:16,088 --> 00:06:18,090 'cause they know something bad's coming. 150 00:06:18,090 --> 00:06:21,677 And Tony Scott in his adaptation made it linear, 151 00:06:21,677 --> 00:06:23,762 and Quentin loves True Romance, 152 00:06:23,762 --> 00:06:25,681 but Clarence died in Quentin's version. 153 00:06:25,681 --> 00:06:28,058 Sweetie! (sobs) 154 00:06:28,058 --> 00:06:29,143 He had sold True Romance. 155 00:06:29,143 --> 00:06:30,394 He was hoping to direct it. 156 00:06:30,394 --> 00:06:31,311 Baby! 157 00:06:31,311 --> 00:06:32,771 He wasn't gonna be able to. 158 00:06:32,771 --> 00:06:34,982 He couldn't get anywhere with Natural Born Killers. 159 00:06:34,982 --> 00:06:37,276 Um, he couldn't get that going to direct, also. 160 00:06:37,276 --> 00:06:39,945 And he wrote Reservoir Dogs so that it would be 161 00:06:39,945 --> 00:06:41,363 set in one contained place, 162 00:06:41,363 --> 00:06:42,906 so that no matter what happened, 163 00:06:42,906 --> 00:06:44,450 he was gonna direct this movie 164 00:06:44,450 --> 00:06:46,118 with the twenty thousand dollars he had made on 165 00:06:46,118 --> 00:06:49,872 Golden Girls residuals for being an Elvis impersonator. 166 00:06:49,872 --> 00:06:58,922 (sings) I do love you with all my heart. 167 00:06:58,922 --> 00:07:00,299 I read a script of 168 00:07:00,299 --> 00:07:04,052 Reservoir Dogs and I just hoped that the writer 169 00:07:04,052 --> 00:07:06,180 who said he was going to be the director 170 00:07:06,180 --> 00:07:08,682 was really a director. 171 00:07:08,682 --> 00:07:10,893 I introduced him to my friend Lawrence Bender, 172 00:07:10,893 --> 00:07:17,399 and Lawrence got Reservoir Dogs all up and running. 173 00:07:17,399 --> 00:07:20,569 And Lawrence said, "Give me a month. 174 00:07:20,569 --> 00:07:22,780 I know somebody who knows Harvey Keitel." 175 00:07:22,780 --> 00:07:24,239 And Harvey said yes. 176 00:07:45,135 --> 00:07:47,429 I was pumping gas, man. 177 00:07:47,429 --> 00:07:49,473 I was driving a tow truck and, 178 00:07:49,473 --> 00:07:53,268 uh, I had done Thelma and Louise 179 00:07:53,268 --> 00:07:56,814 and I had done some episodic TV. 180 00:07:56,814 --> 00:08:00,943 And I got that thing and, you know, 181 00:08:00,943 --> 00:08:03,779 I- I- I'd never read anything like it in my life. 182 00:08:03,779 --> 00:08:06,406 These guys and they're named after colors. 183 00:08:06,406 --> 00:08:11,829 Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, 184 00:08:11,829 --> 00:08:14,414 Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink. 185 00:08:14,414 --> 00:08:15,582 Why am I Mr. Pink? 186 00:08:15,582 --> 00:08:17,167 And I remember my agent, she was saying, 187 00:08:17,167 --> 00:08:21,129 "Well, you know, they all kill each other at the end and, 188 00:08:21,129 --> 00:08:22,422 (clicks tongue) you know, 189 00:08:22,422 --> 00:08:25,133 there's no money and, uh, you know, 190 00:08:25,133 --> 00:08:27,803 nobody's ever heard of this Quentin guy and... 191 00:08:27,803 --> 00:08:29,388 You have no way of knowing 192 00:08:29,388 --> 00:08:32,307 with a first time director whether they can direct or not. 193 00:08:32,307 --> 00:08:33,475 You never know. 194 00:08:33,475 --> 00:08:37,437 But Quentin, even then, prior to making any film, 195 00:08:37,437 --> 00:08:40,107 knew every actor's resume. 196 00:08:40,107 --> 00:08:41,275 This guy was in this. 197 00:08:41,275 --> 00:08:43,652 I want this guy from this, and this Lawrence Tierney 198 00:08:43,652 --> 00:08:45,487 was in Dillinger and I want him. 199 00:08:45,487 --> 00:08:48,282 He just set about putting together the ensemble 200 00:08:48,282 --> 00:08:51,410 and it came out exactly the way he wanted it. 201 00:08:52,828 --> 00:08:55,122 I don't know why he had me stuck in his head to play 202 00:08:55,122 --> 00:08:59,042 Mr. Blonde, 'cause I didn't want to play Mr. Blonde. 203 00:08:59,042 --> 00:09:02,212 I didn't want to get shot by Tim Roth, you know. 204 00:09:02,212 --> 00:09:04,006 I don't want to be killed by Tim Roth. 205 00:09:04,006 --> 00:09:06,842 I was like, hey, man, "Who's Tim Roth?" 206 00:09:06,842 --> 00:09:08,594 I went along and met with him 207 00:09:08,594 --> 00:09:10,429 and- and Harvey Keitel. 208 00:09:10,429 --> 00:09:13,599 And they wanted me to read and I wouldn't read for it. 209 00:09:13,599 --> 00:09:16,185 I'm very bad at auditioning. 210 00:09:16,185 --> 00:09:18,145 I got to memorize all of this? 211 00:09:18,145 --> 00:09:19,813 There's over four fuckin' pages of this shit. 212 00:09:19,813 --> 00:09:21,481 And they pushed, you know, they were pushing me. 213 00:09:21,481 --> 00:09:23,692 And so, me and Quentin went and got some food 214 00:09:23,692 --> 00:09:26,153 and then some beer, and then we went down to a pub near me 215 00:09:26,153 --> 00:09:27,195 and we got more beer. 216 00:09:27,195 --> 00:09:29,907 And we read every character in the script 217 00:09:29,907 --> 00:09:30,908 I don't know how many times. 218 00:09:31,950 --> 00:09:33,535 I'd let Harvey Keitel kill me, 219 00:09:33,535 --> 00:09:36,538 but I don't, I'm not getting killed by Tim Roth. 220 00:09:44,463 --> 00:09:47,674 I was on the floor in a disproportionate 221 00:09:47,674 --> 00:09:49,551 amount of blood to what you can actually 222 00:09:49,551 --> 00:09:51,220 contain in a human body. 223 00:09:51,220 --> 00:09:52,930 At the end of the day, one day, 224 00:09:52,930 --> 00:09:55,098 we- we- we hugged each other. 225 00:09:55,098 --> 00:09:57,517 And, you know, we're both covered with blood, 226 00:09:57,517 --> 00:09:59,061 but it's- it's syrup, basically. 227 00:09:59,061 --> 00:09:59,978 It's- it's fake. 228 00:09:59,978 --> 00:10:02,189 It's stage blood and so when it starts to dry 229 00:10:02,189 --> 00:10:04,441 a little bit it gets extremely sticky. 230 00:10:04,441 --> 00:10:07,653 And we were hugging each other, like, 231 00:10:07,653 --> 00:10:10,155 you know, doing the big guy hug thing 232 00:10:10,155 --> 00:10:12,532 and we- we couldn't get apart. 233 00:10:12,532 --> 00:10:14,159 We were stuck together. 234 00:10:14,159 --> 00:10:16,119 (laughs) 235 00:10:16,119 --> 00:10:17,829 And the wardrobe people were convinced that 236 00:10:17,829 --> 00:10:20,332 if we forcefully separated that it would tear 237 00:10:20,332 --> 00:10:22,584 the clothes apart, and they didn't have 238 00:10:22,584 --> 00:10:24,211 a lot of budget for wardrobe. 239 00:10:24,211 --> 00:10:25,379 In fact, that was my suit. 240 00:10:27,422 --> 00:10:30,842 He told us to come to work in a black suit with white shirts. 241 00:10:30,842 --> 00:10:32,135 They gave us the ties. 242 00:10:32,135 --> 00:10:32,844 That was about it. 243 00:10:32,844 --> 00:10:34,388 And if you watch the movie, 244 00:10:34,388 --> 00:10:37,683 Steve Buscemi has black jeans on. 245 00:10:37,683 --> 00:10:39,893 Those aren't- aren't- aren't suit pants. 246 00:10:39,893 --> 00:10:42,145 They're black jeans, man. 247 00:10:42,145 --> 00:10:45,023 And my suit, the jacket or the pants, 248 00:10:45,023 --> 00:10:46,149 don't go together. 249 00:10:46,149 --> 00:10:47,734 They're from two different suits. 250 00:10:47,734 --> 00:10:50,112 When I see the movie, that's all I remember is 251 00:10:50,112 --> 00:10:51,697 my pants were too tight, man. 252 00:10:51,697 --> 00:10:53,281 They were making me crazy. 253 00:10:53,281 --> 00:10:55,367 And I didn't have black shoes. 254 00:10:55,367 --> 00:10:56,368 He wanted everyone to have black shoes. 255 00:10:56,368 --> 00:10:57,452 I didn't have any. 256 00:10:57,452 --> 00:11:00,372 But I had black cowboy boots, see. 257 00:11:00,372 --> 00:11:02,708 So that's how the razor ended up 258 00:11:02,708 --> 00:11:04,126 being in the boot, 259 00:11:04,126 --> 00:11:06,128 because what am I gonna do with this razor? 260 00:11:06,128 --> 00:11:07,295 Where is it gonna come from. 261 00:11:07,295 --> 00:11:08,797 You know that's how that happened. 262 00:11:09,715 --> 00:11:12,426 In the script it said, "Mr. Blonde dances 263 00:11:12,426 --> 00:11:15,721 maniacally around the manacled cop." 264 00:11:15,721 --> 00:11:18,640 And every time we got to the part of the rehearsal 265 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,058 where that was about to happen, 266 00:11:20,058 --> 00:11:22,394 I would say, "Quentin, I don't know what to do." 267 00:11:22,394 --> 00:11:23,645 And he'd go, "No, no, no. 268 00:11:23,645 --> 00:11:24,896 We'll- we'll- we'll shoot another day. 269 00:11:24,896 --> 00:11:26,023 We'll shoot another day." 270 00:11:26,023 --> 00:11:27,941 He didn't want to do, um, the dancing. 271 00:11:28,859 --> 00:11:29,568 Didn't want to do it. 272 00:11:30,402 --> 00:11:31,028 Iconic. 273 00:11:31,778 --> 00:11:32,362 Right? 274 00:11:32,362 --> 00:11:33,655 Yeah. I was like, "Fuck, man. 275 00:11:33,655 --> 00:11:36,116 I'll do it," (laughs) 276 00:11:36,116 --> 00:11:37,367 from the floor. 277 00:11:37,367 --> 00:11:41,121 I asked him, I said, um, "What's the music 278 00:11:41,121 --> 00:11:43,707 you're gonna play over this whole thing?" 279 00:11:43,707 --> 00:11:45,834 And he said, uh, "Well..." 280 00:11:45,834 --> 00:11:48,503 he said, "I really want, uh, Stealers Wheel. 281 00:11:48,503 --> 00:11:49,963 I want to do "Stuck In The Middle." 282 00:11:49,963 --> 00:11:52,215 And I said, "Why don't you play it for me." 283 00:11:52,215 --> 00:11:54,051 And so they put it on a boom box. 284 00:11:54,051 --> 00:11:57,345 That's actually how it's actually cued in the movie. 285 00:11:57,345 --> 00:12:00,682 And so I slowly started to stand up and I sang while 286 00:12:00,682 --> 00:12:03,518 I started to suddenly do my version of a maniacal dance. 287 00:12:03,518 --> 00:12:07,647 (sings) Well, I don't know why I came here tonight I got... 288 00:12:07,647 --> 00:12:10,025 Honestly, I don't know where it came from. 289 00:12:10,025 --> 00:12:10,817 I honestly don't. 290 00:12:10,817 --> 00:12:13,862 (sings) And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs 291 00:12:13,862 --> 00:12:15,530 I can't dance, which is obvious, 292 00:12:15,530 --> 00:12:17,157 and- and then sort--I just went with it, 293 00:12:17,157 --> 00:12:18,283 'cause I felt like it was working 294 00:12:18,283 --> 00:12:19,451 and I didn't hear him say, "cut". 295 00:12:19,451 --> 00:12:21,119 (sings) ...stuck in the middle with you. 296 00:12:21,119 --> 00:12:22,704 I felt really respected. 297 00:12:22,704 --> 00:12:24,331 And the fact that he let me do that, 298 00:12:24,331 --> 00:12:26,083 I mean, I- I loved him for that. 299 00:12:26,083 --> 00:12:28,293 Even the- the ear thing. 300 00:12:28,293 --> 00:12:31,338 He said, "Okay, step in the frame with the ear." 301 00:12:31,338 --> 00:12:33,757 So I walk in the frame and I have it in my hand, 302 00:12:33,757 --> 00:12:35,425 which is a horrifying moment, you know. 303 00:12:35,425 --> 00:12:37,177 Oh, my God. 304 00:12:37,177 --> 00:12:38,970 And he's going, "Throw it. 305 00:12:38,970 --> 00:12:39,429 Throw it. 306 00:12:39,429 --> 00:12:40,347 Throw it." 307 00:12:40,347 --> 00:12:42,974 And I didn't really want to throw it, 308 00:12:42,974 --> 00:12:45,977 but I couldn't think of anything interesting to do. 309 00:12:45,977 --> 00:12:47,979 And so I spoke in it. 310 00:12:47,979 --> 00:12:49,022 Hey, what's going on? 311 00:12:49,022 --> 00:12:50,565 (groans) You hear that? 312 00:12:50,565 --> 00:12:52,317 (groans) (laughs) So then I threw it. 313 00:12:52,317 --> 00:12:55,028 And I was thinking, God, if you were that guy, 314 00:12:55,028 --> 00:12:56,405 if someone did that to you, 315 00:12:56,405 --> 00:12:57,823 how horrible would that be? 316 00:12:57,823 --> 00:12:59,407 It was a terrifying movie. 317 00:12:59,407 --> 00:13:00,826 As an audience, 318 00:13:00,826 --> 00:13:03,578 we had never seen anything like that really. 319 00:13:03,578 --> 00:13:08,959 It felt so new and so exciting and explosive 320 00:13:08,959 --> 00:13:11,628 and dynamic in just the dialogue. 321 00:13:11,628 --> 00:13:13,380 Give me that fuckin' thing. 322 00:13:13,380 --> 00:13:15,090 Now what the hell do you think you're doin'? 323 00:13:15,090 --> 00:13:15,715 Give me my book back. 324 00:13:15,715 --> 00:13:17,008 I'm sick of fuckin' hearing it. 325 00:13:17,008 --> 00:13:19,219 Joe, I'll give it back to you when we leave. 326 00:13:19,219 --> 00:13:20,512 What do you mean when we leave? 327 00:13:20,512 --> 00:13:21,555 Give me it back now. 328 00:13:21,555 --> 00:13:23,306 For the past fifteen minutes now, 329 00:13:23,306 --> 00:13:26,935 you've been droning on about names, Toby. 330 00:13:26,935 --> 00:13:27,686 Toby? 331 00:13:27,686 --> 00:13:29,437 Once we started shooting Reservoir Dogs... 332 00:13:29,437 --> 00:13:30,230 ...and I remember just being 333 00:13:30,230 --> 00:13:32,065 a couple days in, 334 00:13:32,065 --> 00:13:35,777 and I pulled Harvey Keitel aside and I said, 335 00:13:35,777 --> 00:13:37,362 "Harvey, I'm so excited." 336 00:13:37,362 --> 00:13:39,447 And he said, "Well, why are you so excited?" 337 00:13:39,447 --> 00:13:41,908 And I said, "Well, I never imagined 338 00:13:41,908 --> 00:13:44,744 that what we would do on the film would better 339 00:13:44,744 --> 00:13:46,705 the experience that I had of sitting alone 340 00:13:46,705 --> 00:13:48,832 in my room reading the script." 341 00:13:48,832 --> 00:13:51,126 I've got Madonna's big dick coming out of my left ear 342 00:13:51,126 --> 00:13:53,837 and Toby the Jack, I don't know what, 343 00:13:53,837 --> 00:13:54,880 comin' out of my right. 344 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,090 And Harvey Keitel said, "Of course, 345 00:13:57,090 --> 00:13:58,049 it's better than that. 346 00:13:58,049 --> 00:13:58,842 I'm here." 347 00:13:58,842 --> 00:13:59,634 (laughs) 348 00:13:59,634 --> 00:14:01,803 There's just so much good stuff in them. 349 00:14:01,803 --> 00:14:04,222 No only visually, but, and not only 350 00:14:04,222 --> 00:14:06,641 what the actors say, but what they do 351 00:14:06,641 --> 00:14:10,520 and how they do it and how the plot unfolds. 352 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,648 I think the reason that every critic 353 00:14:13,648 --> 00:14:17,444 and journalist went crazy for Reservoir Dogs 354 00:14:17,444 --> 00:14:19,070 is rightfully so. 355 00:14:19,070 --> 00:14:23,116 It was the debut of an extraordinary new voice. 356 00:14:23,116 --> 00:14:30,457 And, you know, it was our nineties Auteur Indie cinema, 357 00:14:30,457 --> 00:14:33,210 you know, the equivalent of the French New Wave, 358 00:14:33,210 --> 00:14:36,254 breaking any rules that he wants. 359 00:14:36,254 --> 00:14:37,380 It was thrilling. 360 00:14:39,007 --> 00:14:43,720 (groans) 361 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,597 We were walking back to the trailers. 362 00:14:45,597 --> 00:14:48,516 I remember Harvey, he says, "This is good, right?" 363 00:14:48,516 --> 00:14:49,768 And- and, (chuckles) I went, 364 00:14:49,768 --> 00:14:51,811 "Yes, really fuckin' good." 365 00:14:51,811 --> 00:14:53,563 (chuckles) Who's a tough guy? 366 00:14:53,563 --> 00:14:55,565 (wheezes) Who's a tough guy? 367 00:14:55,565 --> 00:14:57,567 (wheezes) And he went, "Don't jinx it. 368 00:14:57,567 --> 00:14:58,109 Don't jinx it. 369 00:14:58,109 --> 00:14:58,902 Whatever you do, don't jinx it." 370 00:14:58,902 --> 00:14:59,945 I said, "Okay." 371 00:14:59,945 --> 00:15:03,531 But it was, the word was out on this- on this guy. 372 00:15:03,531 --> 00:15:05,200 So when we went to France with... 373 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,117 ..Reservoir Dogs, 374 00:15:06,117 --> 00:15:09,079 it was, um, it was chosen as an official selection 375 00:15:09,079 --> 00:15:11,790 of the film festival, which is a very prestigious 376 00:15:11,790 --> 00:15:13,208 place to be, particularly for 377 00:15:13,208 --> 00:15:14,751 a first time director. 378 00:15:14,751 --> 00:15:16,461 So we showed our film in the Palais, 379 00:15:16,461 --> 00:15:19,297 and in the three days prior to that, 380 00:15:19,297 --> 00:15:22,217 Quentin and Lawrence and I are walking around Cannes 381 00:15:22,217 --> 00:15:24,553 and walking down the Croisette and looking at 382 00:15:24,553 --> 00:15:26,763 different movies and going to different screenings 383 00:15:26,763 --> 00:15:28,056 and just... Hey. 384 00:15:28,056 --> 00:15:29,307 ...having a good old time. 385 00:15:29,307 --> 00:15:33,645 And then we screen the film as a midnight special 386 00:15:33,645 --> 00:15:35,188 screening in the Palais. 387 00:15:35,188 --> 00:15:38,233 And the day after that, 388 00:15:38,233 --> 00:15:41,027 when we would walk down the street as we were 389 00:15:41,027 --> 00:15:42,988 goofy guys wandering around, 390 00:15:42,988 --> 00:15:45,407 you'd start to hear people going, "Tarantino! 391 00:15:45,407 --> 00:15:46,783 Tarantino!" 392 00:15:46,783 --> 00:15:50,370 And thus the legend of Quentin began. 393 00:15:50,370 --> 00:15:53,707 The Auteur was born somewhat as it should be 394 00:15:53,707 --> 00:15:55,500 in Cannes. 395 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:59,546 The day after it screened, I got a call from Mario Kassar 396 00:15:59,546 --> 00:16:01,381 who is head of Carolco and he said, 397 00:16:01,381 --> 00:16:04,467 "All of our directors on our boat, 398 00:16:04,467 --> 00:16:07,846 um, want to meet Quentin. 399 00:16:07,846 --> 00:16:11,516 Like what is this movie you made and who is this guy?" 400 00:16:11,516 --> 00:16:13,518 And I said, well, I'll bring him by. 401 00:16:13,518 --> 00:16:17,355 So we showed up at the boat and Renny Harlin 402 00:16:17,355 --> 00:16:19,524 and Oliver Stone and James Cameron 403 00:16:19,524 --> 00:16:22,611 and Paul Verhoeven were all there 404 00:16:22,611 --> 00:16:25,947 and they just wanted to meet Quentin. 405 00:16:25,947 --> 00:16:27,907 And, suddenly, Quentin has, 406 00:16:27,907 --> 00:16:29,117 not only a seat at the table, 407 00:16:29,117 --> 00:16:31,745 but is kind of running the table and these guys are 408 00:16:31,745 --> 00:16:33,913 so interested in Quentin. 409 00:16:33,913 --> 00:16:36,166 And this is how it sort of all began. 410 00:16:36,166 --> 00:16:37,667 Quentin came back 411 00:16:37,667 --> 00:16:40,337 from Cannes after Reservoir Dogs. 412 00:16:40,337 --> 00:16:41,755 Now that was a fascinating story, 413 00:16:41,755 --> 00:16:44,090 'cause he was crashing on my couch, right? 414 00:16:44,090 --> 00:16:46,468 So I was, I had to get, uh, 415 00:16:46,468 --> 00:16:48,303 the "Hollywood Reporter", "Variety", 416 00:16:48,303 --> 00:16:51,389 all of the- the magazines, "L.A. Weekly", 417 00:16:51,389 --> 00:16:53,350 all the stuff that had articles on Reservoir Dogs. 418 00:16:53,350 --> 00:16:55,060 Literally, you couldn't believe how much stuff. 419 00:16:55,060 --> 00:16:55,727 I went, "Oh wait. 420 00:16:55,727 --> 00:16:56,895 This is like a joke." 421 00:16:56,895 --> 00:16:58,605 He went away to Cannes 422 00:16:58,605 --> 00:17:00,398 just another independent filmmaker 423 00:17:00,398 --> 00:17:01,775 and came back like a star. 424 00:17:04,444 --> 00:17:07,238 Miramax was the company that stepped up to 425 00:17:07,238 --> 00:17:08,573 take Reservoir Dogs. 426 00:17:08,573 --> 00:17:12,160 Before that, you know, Quentin was pretty much 427 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,455 nobody wanted to give him a chance to do fuck all. 428 00:17:15,455 --> 00:17:17,665 So that started the bond of Quentin 429 00:17:17,665 --> 00:17:19,626 and the Weinstein Brothers. 430 00:17:23,046 --> 00:17:26,049 "The whole mystical, 431 00:17:26,049 --> 00:17:30,053 shamanistic thing that I thought directing was went 'poof'. 432 00:17:30,053 --> 00:17:31,596 I realized I can do that." - QT 433 00:17:31,596 --> 00:17:33,723 We were in a hotel room on the road 434 00:17:33,723 --> 00:17:35,975 with Reservoir Dogs 435 00:17:35,975 --> 00:17:38,061 and he's got his legal pads out. 436 00:17:38,061 --> 00:17:39,270 And his thing, you know, 437 00:17:39,270 --> 00:17:40,855 the way that he does his scripts. 438 00:17:40,855 --> 00:17:43,983 He starts reading all these characters and stage direction. 439 00:17:43,983 --> 00:17:45,443 I love you, Pumpkin. 440 00:17:45,443 --> 00:17:47,195 And I love you, Honey Bunny. 441 00:17:47,195 --> 00:17:48,321 And it's Pulp Fiction. 442 00:17:48,321 --> 00:17:49,781 Everybody be cool. This is a robbery. 443 00:17:49,781 --> 00:17:50,490 What? 444 00:17:50,490 --> 00:17:54,661 Any of you fuckin' pricks move and I'll execute 445 00:17:54,661 --> 00:17:56,329 every one of ya motherfuckers. 446 00:17:56,329 --> 00:17:58,790 Quentin says, "This is my next thing. 447 00:17:58,790 --> 00:18:04,045 This is what I'm gonna do." 448 00:18:04,045 --> 00:18:06,381 There was an eagerness by many financiers 449 00:18:06,381 --> 00:18:09,759 to make Quentin's next movie. 450 00:18:09,759 --> 00:18:11,094 We had agreed, 451 00:18:11,094 --> 00:18:12,804 uh, Harvey Weinstein agreed, 452 00:18:12,804 --> 00:18:14,514 uh, to finance the film. 453 00:18:14,514 --> 00:18:17,767 They never interfered with his material. 454 00:18:17,767 --> 00:18:21,146 (chuckles) There's subject matter 455 00:18:21,146 --> 00:18:25,650 and dialogue in Quentin's pictures that really nobody else 456 00:18:25,650 --> 00:18:29,195 could get away with doing, especially a white guy. 457 00:18:29,195 --> 00:18:30,572 Did you notice a sign on the front of 458 00:18:30,572 --> 00:18:32,574 my house that said, "Dead Nigger Storage." 459 00:18:32,574 --> 00:18:34,033 Jimmy, you know I ain't seen no shit. 460 00:18:34,033 --> 00:18:36,077 Did you notice a sign on the front of my house 461 00:18:36,077 --> 00:18:38,621 that said "Dead Nigger Storage?" 462 00:18:38,621 --> 00:18:40,123 No. 463 00:18:40,123 --> 00:18:42,459 I got the script and ... 464 00:18:42,459 --> 00:18:43,126 ...I kind of sat 465 00:18:43,126 --> 00:18:44,544 there and stared at it. 466 00:18:44,544 --> 00:18:46,546 When I was done I was like, 467 00:18:46,546 --> 00:18:49,299 "Oh, there's no fuckin' way the script that's good." 468 00:18:49,299 --> 00:18:52,218 I'm just readin' it like that because he told me 469 00:18:52,218 --> 00:18:53,511 he wrote this part for me. 470 00:18:53,511 --> 00:18:56,890 You know what they call a- a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, 471 00:18:56,890 --> 00:18:58,224 uh, in Paris? 472 00:18:58,224 --> 00:18:59,851 They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese? 473 00:18:59,851 --> 00:19:00,185 No, man. 474 00:19:00,185 --> 00:19:01,227 They got the metric system. 475 00:19:01,227 --> 00:19:03,480 They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is. 476 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:04,439 Then what do they call it? 477 00:19:04,439 --> 00:19:07,275 They call it, uh, The Royale with Cheese. 478 00:19:07,275 --> 00:19:08,651 Royale with Cheese. 479 00:19:08,651 --> 00:19:09,360 That's right. 480 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:11,237 Second time it was just as amazing. 481 00:19:11,237 --> 00:19:14,491 So it's like, (exhales air), 482 00:19:14,491 --> 00:19:16,117 okay. 483 00:19:16,117 --> 00:19:19,954 If Harvey Weinstein has the balls to make this movie, 484 00:19:19,954 --> 00:19:21,664 this movie's gonna be awesome. 485 00:19:21,664 --> 00:19:23,416 I know my friends are gonna love it. 486 00:19:23,416 --> 00:19:25,126 He had built a real fan base 487 00:19:25,126 --> 00:19:27,837 on home video by the time Pulp Fiction came out. 488 00:19:27,837 --> 00:19:29,672 But I think he learned something, too. 489 00:19:29,672 --> 00:19:31,674 Watching the film with enough audiences 490 00:19:31,674 --> 00:19:34,427 when he went and toured film festivals, 491 00:19:34,427 --> 00:19:36,930 he realized that he needed to give the audience 492 00:19:36,930 --> 00:19:39,015 permission to laugh. 493 00:19:39,015 --> 00:19:41,017 The dude's head gets blown off in the back of the car. 494 00:19:41,017 --> 00:19:42,519 I mean people laugh at that shit and then they 495 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:43,895 catch themselves and go, "Oh, shit. 496 00:19:43,895 --> 00:19:44,729 I can't laugh at that." 497 00:19:44,729 --> 00:19:45,605 Oh! 498 00:19:45,605 --> 00:19:46,898 What the fuck's happenin'? 499 00:19:46,898 --> 00:19:48,733 Ah, man. Oh, shit, man. 500 00:19:48,733 --> 00:19:50,318 Oh, man, I shot Marvin in the face. 501 00:19:50,318 --> 00:19:51,528 Why the fuck'd you do that? 502 00:19:51,528 --> 00:19:55,156 And it's cool, too, because it's not CGI blood. 503 00:19:55,156 --> 00:19:58,117 He still likes to use squibs and blood packs and stuff, 504 00:19:58,117 --> 00:20:02,205 so I mean I could be twenty-five feet across the room 505 00:20:02,205 --> 00:20:03,998 and get blood splattered on me from shootin' 506 00:20:03,998 --> 00:20:05,625 somebody on the other side of the room, 507 00:20:05,625 --> 00:20:07,585 which was like awesome. 508 00:20:07,585 --> 00:20:09,087 You're sending The Wolf? 509 00:20:09,087 --> 00:20:11,506 Don't you feel better, motherfucker? 510 00:20:11,506 --> 00:20:13,550 Shit yeah, Negro. 511 00:20:13,550 --> 00:20:15,093 That's all you had to say. 512 00:20:16,427 --> 00:20:17,136 Like you have to call 513 00:20:17,136 --> 00:20:18,555 someone because you accidentally shot 514 00:20:18,555 --> 00:20:20,515 someone's head off is amazing, 515 00:20:20,515 --> 00:20:22,141 and then that it becomes, like, 516 00:20:22,141 --> 00:20:26,604 he's so blasé about cleaning bits of brain up. 517 00:20:26,604 --> 00:20:28,189 Oh, man! 518 00:20:28,189 --> 00:20:30,650 I will never forgive your ass for this shit. 519 00:20:30,650 --> 00:20:32,193 Because he always intended it to be funny, 520 00:20:32,193 --> 00:20:34,404 but people sort of felt a little bit uncomfortable. 521 00:20:34,404 --> 00:20:35,405 Am I allowed to laugh? 522 00:20:35,405 --> 00:20:38,032 Am I sick if I'm laughing? 523 00:20:38,032 --> 00:20:39,325 You know, what's going on? 524 00:20:39,325 --> 00:20:42,495 And with Pulp, intentionally, 525 00:20:42,495 --> 00:20:44,205 he really let everybody in on the joke. 526 00:20:44,205 --> 00:20:45,832 They look like a couple of dorks. 527 00:20:45,832 --> 00:20:47,959 (laughs) (laughs) Ha-ha-ha. 528 00:20:47,959 --> 00:20:49,502 They're your clothes, motherfucker. 529 00:20:49,502 --> 00:20:52,630 I can look at it and say this is one of those 530 00:20:52,630 --> 00:20:53,673 gangster characters. 531 00:20:53,673 --> 00:20:55,717 (exhales sharply) This is how he's thinkin', 532 00:20:55,717 --> 00:20:57,302 this is how he's talkin', and this is what his 533 00:20:57,302 --> 00:20:58,428 cadence is. 534 00:20:58,428 --> 00:21:01,890 And I will strike down upon thee with great 535 00:21:01,890 --> 00:21:06,227 vengeance and furious anger those who attempt 536 00:21:06,227 --> 00:21:09,022 to poison and destroy my brothers. 537 00:21:09,022 --> 00:21:13,484 And because I spent so many years doing theater. 538 00:21:13,484 --> 00:21:17,405 And you will know my name is the Lord 539 00:21:17,405 --> 00:21:20,867 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. 540 00:21:20,867 --> 00:21:27,665 (screams) I love a monologue. 541 00:21:27,665 --> 00:21:30,043 I remember when I originally gave this script 542 00:21:30,043 --> 00:21:31,336 to the Weinsteins, Harvey read it 543 00:21:31,336 --> 00:21:33,338 and called me up and said, "You guys are crazy. 544 00:21:33,338 --> 00:21:34,839 You just killed the main character 545 00:21:34,839 --> 00:21:37,508 in the middle of the movie." 546 00:21:37,508 --> 00:21:41,596 (screams) I said, 547 00:21:41,596 --> 00:21:42,347 "Keep reading." 548 00:21:42,347 --> 00:21:44,849 He said, "But you can't kill the main character in 549 00:21:44,849 --> 00:21:46,434 the middle of the movie." 550 00:21:46,434 --> 00:21:47,727 I said, "Keep reading." 551 00:21:47,727 --> 00:21:49,062 He said, "Oh, my God. 552 00:21:49,062 --> 00:21:51,230 He comes back, doesn't he?" 553 00:21:51,230 --> 00:21:52,607 He goes, "Is it a happy ending?" 554 00:21:52,607 --> 00:21:54,233 I said, "It's a happy ending. 555 00:21:55,318 --> 00:21:57,904 And the beauty of Quentin is that when it's time to 556 00:21:57,904 --> 00:22:01,407 shoot the film, though he wrote it and he conceived it 557 00:22:01,407 --> 00:22:02,867 and he knows where it's going... 558 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:04,911 Hello? 559 00:22:05,995 --> 00:22:09,749 ...the actors are a huge part of that soup 560 00:22:09,749 --> 00:22:12,126 that creates that character of the story. 561 00:22:12,126 --> 00:22:12,877 (on intercom) Vincent? 562 00:22:15,254 --> 00:22:17,507 Vincent? 563 00:22:17,507 --> 00:22:19,509 I'm on the intercom. 564 00:22:19,509 --> 00:22:22,887 And he wrote the part 565 00:22:22,887 --> 00:22:27,100 that John Travolta played in that movie for Michael. 566 00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:29,310 And Michael didn't do it. 567 00:22:29,310 --> 00:22:31,896 I was already committed to Wyatt Earp. 568 00:22:31,896 --> 00:22:34,357 And now here's Quentin wants me to do Pulp Fiction. 569 00:22:34,357 --> 00:22:36,943 And they were both going at the same time. 570 00:22:36,943 --> 00:22:39,278 You know look at Travolta in Pulp Fiction. 571 00:22:39,278 --> 00:22:41,489 It's one of the most extraordinary performances 572 00:22:41,489 --> 00:22:44,826 in a- in a film that's filled to the brim 573 00:22:44,826 --> 00:22:46,661 with extraordinary performances. 574 00:22:46,661 --> 00:22:51,749 (gasps) (screams) John had to be convinced. 575 00:22:51,749 --> 00:22:53,418 But the moment that they met, 576 00:22:53,418 --> 00:22:56,045 it was clear that it- it was their destiny to- 577 00:22:56,045 --> 00:22:57,046 to work together. 578 00:22:57,046 --> 00:23:00,925 Isn't it true that a part of John Travolta being in it, 579 00:23:00,925 --> 00:23:03,678 it became John's comeback. 580 00:23:03,678 --> 00:23:06,681 He was doing movies about talking babies and, 581 00:23:06,681 --> 00:23:09,434 suddenly, he's, you know, Vincent Vega. 582 00:23:09,434 --> 00:23:11,144 You know he had that wig on. 583 00:23:11,144 --> 00:23:15,148 Nobody'd ever seen Travolta with a fuckin' gun. 584 00:23:17,066 --> 00:23:19,360 And that was a huge, huge reason 585 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:20,486 why the movie worked. 586 00:23:20,486 --> 00:23:22,697 John Travolta can move like almost nobody else. 587 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,826 The dance scene that Quentin gives him 588 00:23:26,826 --> 00:23:32,498 is so incredible because Quentin gets what this guy can do 589 00:23:32,498 --> 00:23:33,791 and lets him do it. 590 00:23:33,791 --> 00:23:35,668 That was neat, man, that whole thing and, 591 00:23:35,668 --> 00:23:37,378 uh, I- I wouldn't have come up with that, 592 00:23:37,378 --> 00:23:38,755 you know. 593 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:40,965 The twist wouldn't haven't have been exactly the same. 594 00:23:40,965 --> 00:23:42,717 He would have had to change the script that 595 00:23:42,717 --> 00:23:44,552 they don't win the dance contest. 596 00:23:47,013 --> 00:23:48,681 When you're on a set and working with Quentin, 597 00:23:48,681 --> 00:23:51,434 he always seemed to me like he kept a very healthy 598 00:23:51,434 --> 00:23:54,812 distance between himself and producer types. 599 00:23:54,812 --> 00:23:56,773 And what Quentin wanted, Quentin got, 600 00:23:56,773 --> 00:23:58,107 deservedly so. 601 00:23:59,067 --> 00:23:59,942 Action! 602 00:23:59,942 --> 00:24:01,194 We were a bit into production 603 00:24:01,194 --> 00:24:03,362 and Harvey Weinstein came to visit. 604 00:24:03,362 --> 00:24:06,949 I purposely wanted to take him to the Jack Rabbit Slim set 605 00:24:06,949 --> 00:24:08,409 because we built it. 606 00:24:08,409 --> 00:24:09,452 It's cool. 607 00:24:09,452 --> 00:24:10,870 It's really filmy. 608 00:24:10,870 --> 00:24:13,623 And Quentin isn't the "build sets" kind of guy. 609 00:24:13,623 --> 00:24:15,833 He's the "find a real place and do it". 610 00:24:15,833 --> 00:24:18,753 And as we walked in, I didn't tell Harvey what we 611 00:24:18,753 --> 00:24:19,712 were shooting. 612 00:24:19,712 --> 00:24:21,547 And I just remember looking at him and going, 613 00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:23,466 "Welcome to Quentin World." 614 00:24:23,466 --> 00:24:26,177 He just said, "What- what- what is this? 615 00:24:26,177 --> 00:24:27,595 This is crazy." 616 00:24:27,595 --> 00:24:30,181 You know with the race track and the dancers 617 00:24:30,181 --> 00:24:32,725 and the trophies and the characters 618 00:24:32,725 --> 00:24:34,268 imitating other characters. 619 00:24:35,645 --> 00:24:37,730 You know Quentin just has in his head I want people 620 00:24:37,730 --> 00:24:41,609 to sit in the back seat of a nineteen-fifty-seven Cadillac. 621 00:24:41,609 --> 00:24:44,904 And, you know, they need to drink an Amos and Andy shake. 622 00:24:44,904 --> 00:24:47,323 And he comes up with all this stuff in the same way 623 00:24:47,323 --> 00:24:48,866 that he comes up with his own products. 624 00:24:50,409 --> 00:24:51,202 Mm... 625 00:24:52,286 --> 00:24:54,956 This is a tasty burger. 626 00:24:54,956 --> 00:24:57,625 Vincent, have you ever had a Big Kahuna burger? 627 00:24:57,625 --> 00:25:00,211 By the time Pulp Fiction came around, 628 00:25:00,211 --> 00:25:02,171 he was doing his own product placement. 629 00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:04,006 Give me a pack of Red Apples. 630 00:25:04,006 --> 00:25:05,174 Filters? 631 00:25:05,174 --> 00:25:06,300 Nah. 632 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:08,094 And that's when Red Apple came about. 633 00:25:08,094 --> 00:25:10,221 That's when Kahuna burger came about. 634 00:25:10,221 --> 00:25:12,807 That's when all of that stuff started to happen. 635 00:25:12,807 --> 00:25:15,852 Red Apple tobacco is not a real thing. 636 00:25:15,852 --> 00:25:17,436 That's a Quentin cigarette. 637 00:25:17,436 --> 00:25:20,398 There's a great moment 638 00:25:20,398 --> 00:25:22,108 in Hateful Eight where... 639 00:25:22,108 --> 00:25:24,402 ...Demian Bichir is standing 640 00:25:24,402 --> 00:25:25,945 behind the bar. 641 00:25:25,945 --> 00:25:29,657 And he's having a smoke of Red Apple tobacco. 642 00:25:29,657 --> 00:25:31,284 And he's just standing there like this and he's going, 643 00:25:31,284 --> 00:25:31,909 "Hmm. 644 00:25:31,909 --> 00:25:32,869 This is pretty good." 645 00:25:32,869 --> 00:25:33,995 (chuckles) Like this. 646 00:25:33,995 --> 00:25:37,415 And we got all pissed off because he got to do 647 00:25:37,415 --> 00:25:39,250 the Red Apple moment. 648 00:25:39,250 --> 00:25:41,460 He got to have it himself. 649 00:25:41,460 --> 00:25:44,088 Everybody from costumes down to every detail, 650 00:25:44,088 --> 00:25:46,173 to props, to Red Apple tobacco, 651 00:25:46,173 --> 00:25:50,177 to everything, there's nothing random 652 00:25:50,177 --> 00:25:52,013 about anything in a Quentin movie. 653 00:25:52,013 --> 00:25:54,599 Remember her cutting the ropes off 654 00:25:54,599 --> 00:25:56,309 when she's in the coffin. 655 00:25:56,309 --> 00:25:57,852 That's Mr. Blonde's razor. 656 00:25:57,852 --> 00:25:58,436 It's brilliant, right? 657 00:25:58,436 --> 00:25:59,604 That's cool. 658 00:25:59,604 --> 00:26:01,772 There's a little nod when you're watching Reservoir Dogs. 659 00:26:01,772 --> 00:26:02,940 If you every hear Mr. White, 660 00:26:02,940 --> 00:26:04,358 somebody says, "How's Bama?" 661 00:26:04,358 --> 00:26:06,068 By the way, how's Alabama? 662 00:26:06,068 --> 00:26:06,986 Alabama? 663 00:26:08,279 --> 00:26:11,324 I haven't seen Bama over a year and a half. 664 00:26:11,324 --> 00:26:13,326 And you understand that Alabama left, 665 00:26:13,326 --> 00:26:17,580 met Mr. White, learned about the- the bank heist 666 00:26:17,580 --> 00:26:19,916 or jewelry thief business from him, 667 00:26:19,916 --> 00:26:22,168 and they couldn't be together because she was 668 00:26:22,168 --> 00:26:23,753 still in love with Clarence and she'd be in 669 00:26:23,753 --> 00:26:25,880 love with Clarence for his whole life. 670 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,175 So all these characters live in Quentin's universe. 671 00:26:29,175 --> 00:26:31,677 And Vic here, I mean he's only been nothing 672 00:26:31,677 --> 00:26:35,473 but good luck for us and, that guys a fuckin' rabbit's foot. 673 00:26:35,473 --> 00:26:38,517 Vic Vega, Vincent Vega, the Vega Brothers. 674 00:26:38,517 --> 00:26:41,020 And, uh, how 'bout your fella here? 675 00:26:41,020 --> 00:26:42,355 Vincent Vega. 676 00:26:42,355 --> 00:26:44,607 With film it's not just characters 677 00:26:44,607 --> 00:26:47,234 and it's not just action and it's not just cinema, 678 00:26:47,234 --> 00:26:49,528 but it's celluloid, it's seeing it on the film, 679 00:26:49,528 --> 00:26:51,781 and it's the soundtrack, but also, 680 00:26:51,781 --> 00:26:55,534 amazingly, taking songs they know and reimagining. 681 00:26:55,534 --> 00:26:56,577 (sings) Bow, bow, bow... 682 00:26:56,577 --> 00:27:00,998 ...you'll be a woman soon. (sings)...a woman... 683 00:27:00,998 --> 00:27:04,377 And you just sit there and you just- you can't 684 00:27:04,377 --> 00:27:07,922 believe that you're hearing the song in a new 685 00:27:07,922 --> 00:27:08,965 and different way. 686 00:27:08,965 --> 00:27:10,633 (sings) He's not your kind. (sings) He's not your kind. 687 00:27:10,633 --> 00:27:13,469 And so much of those songs were background on the radio 688 00:27:13,469 --> 00:27:15,137 when you were kids or when you were adults 689 00:27:15,137 --> 00:27:16,597 driving around. 690 00:27:16,597 --> 00:27:19,684 And Quentin takes them and he takes that background, 691 00:27:19,684 --> 00:27:22,019 counterpoints it against something that 692 00:27:22,019 --> 00:27:23,312 it doesn't make sense with. 693 00:27:25,022 --> 00:27:27,400 Or he uses it to emphasize a scene. 694 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,819 What he makes are really rich, 695 00:27:29,819 --> 00:27:32,530 densely textured mosaics. 696 00:27:32,530 --> 00:27:35,032 Try to dissect it, you'd almost undoubtedly miss 697 00:27:35,032 --> 00:27:36,993 so many of the pieces and the ways they interact 698 00:27:36,993 --> 00:27:38,661 with each other and the way they make sense 699 00:27:38,661 --> 00:27:39,370 with each other. 700 00:27:39,370 --> 00:27:40,204 I remember being 701 00:27:40,204 --> 00:27:42,623 on the set of From Dust Till Dawn while they were 702 00:27:42,623 --> 00:27:44,917 shooting that, and I said, and by that time Pulp Fiction 703 00:27:44,917 --> 00:27:45,960 just went through the roof. 704 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,628 I said, "Quentin, did you have any idea 705 00:27:47,628 --> 00:27:48,212 how big this would be? 706 00:27:48,212 --> 00:27:51,173 He goes, (inhales sharply) "Yeah, no." 707 00:27:51,173 --> 00:27:52,008 (laughs) 708 00:27:52,008 --> 00:27:55,761 The Palme d'Or goes to... 709 00:27:55,761 --> 00:27:56,804 ...Pulp Fiction. 710 00:28:32,757 --> 00:28:34,675 What do you do after that masterpiece? 711 00:28:34,675 --> 00:28:36,177 When you know you're damned. 712 00:28:36,177 --> 00:28:37,219 There's, you know, 713 00:28:37,219 --> 00:28:40,473 after Citizen Kane, Welles walks away 714 00:28:40,473 --> 00:28:41,599 from Magnificent Ambersons. 715 00:28:41,599 --> 00:28:42,850 Quentin's made Pulp Fiction. 716 00:28:42,850 --> 00:28:46,020 He's made one of the great films of the last half century. 717 00:28:46,020 --> 00:28:49,398 So what does he do next? 718 00:28:49,398 --> 00:28:53,611 A genre film that in and of itself is really wonderful. 719 00:28:53,611 --> 00:28:55,780 Plays with time, plays with character, 720 00:28:55,780 --> 00:28:57,490 plays with your perceptions, 721 00:28:57,490 --> 00:29:00,117 and he doesn't try and redo Pulp Fiction. 722 00:29:00,117 --> 00:29:01,452 I know he has 723 00:29:01,452 --> 00:29:05,247 this strong Blaxploitation influence in his life. 724 00:29:05,247 --> 00:29:05,915 For God's sake. 725 00:29:05,915 --> 00:29:08,542 People say he makes 726 00:29:08,542 --> 00:29:09,543 revenge movies. 727 00:29:09,543 --> 00:29:12,379 You know, those were sort of revenge movies, 728 00:29:12,379 --> 00:29:14,215 all about gettin' the man or gettin' back at the man Sweet 729 00:29:14,215 --> 00:29:16,467 or gettin' back at the person who did somethin' bad to you. 730 00:29:16,467 --> 00:29:20,054 It's one of those things that makes his movies fun. 731 00:29:20,054 --> 00:29:21,847 And those are the things 732 00:29:21,847 --> 00:29:24,934 that influenced his young cinema experiences, 733 00:29:24,934 --> 00:29:26,227 like mine. 734 00:29:26,227 --> 00:29:27,603 He broke everything down. 735 00:29:27,603 --> 00:29:29,730 He explained, like, "When I was a kid, 736 00:29:29,730 --> 00:29:31,607 my mom dated black guys. 737 00:29:31,607 --> 00:29:33,776 Black guys would try to get in good with my mom, 738 00:29:33,776 --> 00:29:37,822 would take me to, uh, Blaxploitation films 739 00:29:37,822 --> 00:29:39,240 to watch as a kid. 740 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,991 So that's what I grew up on. 741 00:29:40,991 --> 00:29:45,746 So I'm writing what I saw, what's inside my DNA, 742 00:29:45,746 --> 00:29:47,665 and then that's why my characters are 743 00:29:47,665 --> 00:29:49,041 always very strong." 744 00:29:49,041 --> 00:29:50,167 You helped her, didn't you? 745 00:29:50,167 --> 00:29:51,085 When you're sort of bred 746 00:29:51,085 --> 00:29:52,461 into naturally appreciating, 747 00:29:52,461 --> 00:29:54,338 it's not like someone's taught you, 748 00:29:54,338 --> 00:29:57,299 you should respect women, or black people are equal. 749 00:29:57,299 --> 00:29:59,135 Like someone's not teaching you that lesson. 750 00:29:59,135 --> 00:30:01,011 You just know it to be true. 751 00:30:01,011 --> 00:30:02,763 This is how he views the world, 752 00:30:02,763 --> 00:30:06,392 and he paints the world the way he sees it in his movies. 753 00:30:06,392 --> 00:30:09,603 And so the power is this is his truth. 754 00:30:09,603 --> 00:30:11,397 Jackie Brown is in many ways 755 00:30:11,397 --> 00:30:13,983 an ode to the sort of Blaxploitation films 756 00:30:13,983 --> 00:30:14,525 of the period. 757 00:30:14,525 --> 00:30:16,235 And who are you gonna cast? 758 00:30:16,235 --> 00:30:17,069 Pam Grier. 759 00:30:18,112 --> 00:30:19,363 I'd heard about Foxy Brown 760 00:30:19,363 --> 00:30:21,282 and Coffy and all the Pam Grier movie. 761 00:30:21,282 --> 00:30:21,740 You know, of course, 762 00:30:21,740 --> 00:30:23,033 Pam Grier's had a glorious career 763 00:30:23,033 --> 00:30:24,785 even up before Quentin Tarantino. 764 00:30:24,785 --> 00:30:26,954 He just, like, has made her that- that much cooler 765 00:30:26,954 --> 00:30:27,788 in my opinion. 766 00:30:27,788 --> 00:30:29,707 Pam Grier can kick ass, 767 00:30:29,707 --> 00:30:30,332 you know what I mean? 768 00:30:30,332 --> 00:30:32,793 It's not all Foxy Brown and it ain't all, 769 00:30:32,793 --> 00:30:34,378 you know, Straight Outta Compton. 770 00:30:37,631 --> 00:30:40,259 Jackie Brown, to me, that performance is 771 00:30:40,259 --> 00:30:42,678 so amazing and beautiful. 772 00:30:42,678 --> 00:30:44,889 But still like so strong 773 00:30:44,889 --> 00:30:48,017 and so flawed and desperate, 774 00:30:48,017 --> 00:30:50,102 and yet very sort of steely. 775 00:30:50,102 --> 00:30:52,479 I mean he writes women like nobody's business. 776 00:30:52,479 --> 00:30:55,816 In the last forty-five to fifty years, 777 00:30:55,816 --> 00:31:00,196 women have not been given a fair shake in terms of, 778 00:31:00,196 --> 00:31:05,159 uh, leading roles in, uh, movies where we can see 779 00:31:05,159 --> 00:31:07,036 what makes the woman tick. 780 00:31:07,036 --> 00:31:08,495 That's why you came here to kill me. 781 00:31:08,495 --> 00:31:09,497 (chuckles) I ain't come over here to kill you. 782 00:31:09,497 --> 00:31:10,247 Oh, no, that's fine. 783 00:31:10,247 --> 00:31:10,831 It's okay. 784 00:31:11,999 --> 00:31:12,917 Now I forgive you. 785 00:31:12,917 --> 00:31:14,418 That's the thing with Quentin's dialogue. 786 00:31:14,418 --> 00:31:15,502 A couple of men that would be like, 787 00:31:15,502 --> 00:31:17,671 I mean, women don't really talk like that. 788 00:31:17,671 --> 00:31:18,797 And I was like (laughs). 789 00:31:18,797 --> 00:31:21,509 Aw, that's cute, (inhales) 'cause we really do. 790 00:31:21,509 --> 00:31:24,011 Now if I have to do more than a year, 791 00:31:24,011 --> 00:31:26,472 you'll pay another one hundred thousand dollars. 792 00:31:26,472 --> 00:31:27,973 Women would come up to us and be like, 793 00:31:27,973 --> 00:31:28,766 "Oh, my God. 794 00:31:28,766 --> 00:31:30,893 How- Is he a woman on the inside?" 795 00:31:30,893 --> 00:31:32,019 I'm like yeah, he's kind of, 796 00:31:32,019 --> 00:31:33,229 he's a bit of woman on the inside. 797 00:31:33,229 --> 00:31:34,605 He's a little bit black on the inside. 798 00:31:34,605 --> 00:31:36,857 He's just got a whole bunch of stuff going on in him. 799 00:31:36,857 --> 00:31:39,777 If you think that you know more 800 00:31:39,777 --> 00:31:42,821 about a movie or an actor or- or anything to do 801 00:31:42,821 --> 00:31:45,532 with cinema history, he will just sit there 802 00:31:45,532 --> 00:31:49,328 and smile and listen to you, and then he will bury you 803 00:31:49,328 --> 00:31:51,121 with how much stuff he knows. 804 00:31:51,121 --> 00:31:53,415 Exactly the fact that Quentin didn't go to film school. 805 00:31:53,415 --> 00:31:55,709 I guess his film school was video archives 806 00:31:55,709 --> 00:32:00,130 and the endless movies that he could learn and read and, 807 00:32:00,130 --> 00:32:03,509 uh, watch and, uh, and enjoy and turn other 808 00:32:03,509 --> 00:32:04,176 people onto. 809 00:32:04,176 --> 00:32:06,053 Get himself gone. 810 00:32:06,053 --> 00:32:09,265 The films that he gets off on vary vastly. 811 00:32:09,265 --> 00:32:11,267 Everybody's after Kowalski 812 00:32:11,267 --> 00:32:13,936 He's passionate about Vanishing Point 813 00:32:13,936 --> 00:32:15,437 and that genre. 814 00:32:15,437 --> 00:32:19,984 And then Moeshe. 815 00:32:19,984 --> 00:32:21,944 He just loves the TV show Moesha. 816 00:32:21,944 --> 00:32:23,112 Moeshe. 817 00:32:23,112 --> 00:32:25,114 I would have never guessed that. 818 00:32:25,114 --> 00:32:27,366 And I- I think he's like that about all kinds of things. 819 00:32:27,366 --> 00:32:28,534 I think he's like that with food, 820 00:32:28,534 --> 00:32:32,121 like he loves amazingly high quality French dishes 821 00:32:32,121 --> 00:32:34,331 and he- he will smash a Pink's hotdog, 822 00:32:34,331 --> 00:32:36,875 you know, like I honestly, I think he's kind of like 823 00:32:36,875 --> 00:32:37,835 that with women. 824 00:32:37,835 --> 00:32:39,628 ..break my heart 825 00:32:39,628 --> 00:32:41,880 and make me sad. 826 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,425 Tell me what did I do wrong. 827 00:32:44,425 --> 00:32:46,010 He's sort of like, if he's in love with you 828 00:32:46,010 --> 00:32:47,219 and you're a big, black, 829 00:32:47,219 --> 00:32:49,054 curvy, gorgeous lady, he's all about big, 830 00:32:49,054 --> 00:32:49,930 black curves. 831 00:32:49,930 --> 00:32:51,432 (sings) My baby love... 832 00:32:52,308 --> 00:32:53,517 And if you're a waify, 833 00:32:53,517 --> 00:32:55,811 skinny little white model type and he's in love with you, 834 00:32:55,811 --> 00:32:58,147 he just thinks that's the hottest thing on the planet. 835 00:32:58,147 --> 00:32:59,940 He's just like an appreciator. 836 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,110 He knows everybody. 837 00:33:03,110 --> 00:33:06,238 And when he meets an actor from my era, 838 00:33:06,238 --> 00:33:07,948 the era when he was growin' up, 839 00:33:07,948 --> 00:33:12,494 he amazes them and amazed me by reminding me of this 840 00:33:12,494 --> 00:33:14,079 and that and things and moments 841 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:16,498 and scenes that he remembers. 842 00:33:16,498 --> 00:33:20,628 He also built a way of sharing his vision with people. 843 00:33:20,628 --> 00:33:22,212 It wasn't storyboards. 844 00:33:22,212 --> 00:33:24,381 It was references. 845 00:33:24,381 --> 00:33:27,176 And so he'd say, 846 00:33:27,176 --> 00:33:29,928 "The warehouse looks like this." 847 00:33:29,928 --> 00:33:32,765 Or, "Look at this film for a reference for 848 00:33:32,765 --> 00:33:34,850 what I'm kind of trying to do here." 849 00:33:34,850 --> 00:33:36,810 When you're in rehearsal with him,... 850 00:33:36,810 --> 00:33:38,937 ...you're discussing those references, 851 00:33:38,937 --> 00:33:42,066 specifically, and he gives you stuff to watch. 852 00:33:42,066 --> 00:33:44,902 It's not something you come to 853 00:33:44,902 --> 00:33:46,737 lightly with him. 854 00:33:46,737 --> 00:33:48,030 It's not a rip-off 855 00:33:48,030 --> 00:33:50,658 that's just crap. 856 00:33:50,658 --> 00:33:52,576 And it's not even an homage. 857 00:33:54,161 --> 00:33:57,164 It's that he's using the tools of cinema to make 858 00:33:57,164 --> 00:33:59,249 more resonant and greater cinema. 859 00:33:59,958 --> 00:34:03,587 Quentin uses filmic vocabulary. 860 00:34:03,587 --> 00:34:05,339 If you look at great art, 861 00:34:05,339 --> 00:34:08,050 that's what musicians do, composers do, 862 00:34:08,050 --> 00:34:09,593 painters do, sculptors do. 863 00:34:09,593 --> 00:34:10,844 'Cause he always, you know, 864 00:34:12,513 --> 00:34:15,974 elevates everything and charges everything. 865 00:34:15,974 --> 00:34:19,478 The detective was the genre that I started with. 866 00:34:19,478 --> 00:34:22,940 Old cars, old clothes, old jokes, fast women, 867 00:34:22,940 --> 00:34:24,316 they all lied to me. 868 00:34:24,316 --> 00:34:26,568 The cynical, but human detective. 869 00:34:26,568 --> 00:34:29,071 Robert Forster as Banyon. 870 00:34:29,071 --> 00:34:30,906 One of the things Quentin does is incur 871 00:34:30,906 --> 00:34:32,449 talent all the time. 872 00:34:32,449 --> 00:34:33,617 I mean a lot of times people will 873 00:34:33,617 --> 00:34:35,744 resurrect old actors and they have them do 874 00:34:35,744 --> 00:34:36,662 what they always did. 875 00:34:36,662 --> 00:34:42,209 What Quentin always does is he pushes them further. 876 00:34:42,209 --> 00:34:43,836 He takes them to a new place. 877 00:34:45,421 --> 00:34:47,464 He gives them a different career. 878 00:34:47,464 --> 00:34:49,675 When my career was at the very bottom, 879 00:34:49,675 --> 00:34:51,051 in walks Quentin. 880 00:34:51,051 --> 00:34:54,096 He said, "I am adapting Rum Punch, 881 00:34:54,096 --> 00:34:57,141 an Elmore Leonard novel, to a movie." 882 00:34:57,141 --> 00:34:59,184 And I said to him, "I don't think they're gonna 883 00:34:59,184 --> 00:35:01,061 let you hire me." 884 00:35:01,061 --> 00:35:03,981 That period in my career, the distributors 885 00:35:03,981 --> 00:35:05,190 didn't want me. 886 00:35:05,190 --> 00:35:07,109 They wanted, you know, somebody with a bigger name. 887 00:35:07,109 --> 00:35:09,820 And he said, and I will never forget him for it, 888 00:35:09,820 --> 00:35:12,948 he said, "I hire anybody I want." 889 00:35:12,948 --> 00:35:15,909 And that is the first moment when I said, 890 00:35:15,909 --> 00:35:19,246 "Wow, Bob, this is a life-changer." 891 00:35:19,246 --> 00:35:21,582 All right, before we start talking about stewardesses, 892 00:35:21,582 --> 00:35:23,375 let's get Beaumont out of the way first. 893 00:35:23,375 --> 00:35:25,544 Uh, you know, I think somebody already did. 894 00:35:25,544 --> 00:35:27,171 I got a call from my agents. 895 00:35:27,171 --> 00:35:28,964 They said that, uh, Vince Gilligan was 896 00:35:28,964 --> 00:35:29,715 gonna call me. 897 00:35:32,468 --> 00:35:33,594 I picked up the phone. 898 00:35:33,594 --> 00:35:36,305 Vince said, "Uh, we've been saving a role 899 00:35:36,305 --> 00:35:37,639 called "The Disappearer". 900 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:40,267 We've been calling it the Robert Forster role. 901 00:35:40,267 --> 00:35:41,935 And it was, in fact, 902 00:35:41,935 --> 00:35:43,187 a straight shooter. 903 00:35:43,187 --> 00:35:44,396 It's gonna take me 904 00:35:44,396 --> 00:35:47,065 some time to get your new situation fixed. 905 00:35:47,065 --> 00:35:48,692 Until then, you're gonna be staying here. 906 00:35:48,692 --> 00:35:51,028 I've got a place downstairs out of sight. 907 00:35:51,028 --> 00:35:53,363 And, uh, this was a direct result, 908 00:35:53,363 --> 00:35:54,948 of course, of Jackie Brown. 909 00:35:54,948 --> 00:35:59,495 People kept sayin' well, it's not Pulp Fiction. 910 00:35:59,495 --> 00:36:01,371 No, it's fuckin' Jackie Brown. 911 00:36:01,371 --> 00:36:03,373 It's a different pace, it's a different story 912 00:36:03,373 --> 00:36:05,459 and it's about different kinds of people. 913 00:36:05,459 --> 00:36:08,253 Yeah, there are some criminals in there, 914 00:36:08,253 --> 00:36:10,964 but it's really an adult movie about people 915 00:36:10,964 --> 00:36:12,925 in a certain place in their life when it's time 916 00:36:12,925 --> 00:36:14,718 for them to make a choice about how they want to live 917 00:36:14,718 --> 00:36:15,552 the rest of their life. 918 00:36:15,552 --> 00:36:17,012 It's a crossroads movie. 919 00:36:17,012 --> 00:36:19,014 If you had the chance, unemployed now, 920 00:36:20,390 --> 00:36:23,101 to walk away with a half million dollars 921 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:25,437 would you take it? 922 00:36:25,437 --> 00:36:28,815 Despite whatever the minor violence is in it, 923 00:36:28,815 --> 00:36:32,569 it's just a great story about these people trying 924 00:36:32,569 --> 00:36:33,987 to figure out their lives. 925 00:36:37,741 --> 00:36:41,036 When Jackie Brown came out of the prison 926 00:36:41,036 --> 00:36:44,998 and had that long walk toward me 927 00:36:44,998 --> 00:36:47,876 and it is accompanied by music... 928 00:36:52,297 --> 00:37:01,348 (sings) Why do I keep my mind on you all the time? 929 00:37:01,348 --> 00:37:02,349 And I don't even know you... 930 00:37:02,349 --> 00:37:05,227 ...you're watching this guy fall in love 931 00:37:05,227 --> 00:37:06,311 with a woman. 932 00:37:08,522 --> 00:37:13,026 I cannot tell you how emotive that was, 933 00:37:13,026 --> 00:37:15,529 and for a director to do that. 934 00:37:15,529 --> 00:37:17,739 They never do that. 935 00:37:17,739 --> 00:37:20,200 Out of all those films, Jackie Brown is sort of like 936 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,577 the best one. 937 00:37:21,577 --> 00:37:24,496 Yeah, for me, just because of the cinematic beauty 938 00:37:24,496 --> 00:37:27,708 and gentleness of that particular story. 939 00:37:27,708 --> 00:37:29,293 (sing) ...baby. 940 00:37:29,293 --> 00:37:30,168 Hmm. 941 00:37:30,168 --> 00:37:31,420 (sing) Gave you the love you never knew, girl. 942 00:37:31,420 --> 00:37:33,297 Who is this? 943 00:37:33,297 --> 00:37:34,965 The Delphonics. (sing) Didn't I do it baby... 944 00:37:37,217 --> 00:37:38,051 It's nice. 945 00:37:38,051 --> 00:37:38,886 Mm-hmm. 946 00:37:51,648 --> 00:37:53,150 The main influences of Kill Bill 947 00:37:53,150 --> 00:37:59,948 is all the best of Hong Kong cinema. 948 00:37:59,948 --> 00:38:01,325 Quentin is in love 949 00:38:01,325 --> 00:38:02,618 with the culture. 950 00:38:02,618 --> 00:38:04,369 When he does martial arts stuff, 951 00:38:04,369 --> 00:38:07,998 he's recreating the energy and he's participating as 952 00:38:07,998 --> 00:38:10,250 somebody who is so thrilled watching this. 953 00:38:11,710 --> 00:38:14,129 The last script Quentin gave me was Kill Bill... 954 00:38:14,129 --> 00:38:14,713 And it was like almost 955 00:38:14,713 --> 00:38:16,131 the size of a small phone book. 956 00:38:16,131 --> 00:38:16,840 Remember those? 957 00:38:18,050 --> 00:38:20,010 Story by Q and U, 958 00:38:21,219 --> 00:38:23,221 meaning U as in Uma. 959 00:38:23,221 --> 00:38:25,265 We've all just been calling her the bride on 960 00:38:25,265 --> 00:38:26,475 account of the dress. 961 00:38:26,475 --> 00:38:29,353 You can tell she was pregnant. 962 00:38:29,353 --> 00:38:31,146 (spits) 963 00:38:31,146 --> 00:38:33,774 That woman deserves her revenge and- 964 00:38:33,774 --> 00:38:35,150 and we deserve to die. 965 00:38:35,150 --> 00:38:37,611 I could see the faces of the cunts 966 00:38:37,611 --> 00:38:42,407 who did this to me and the dicks responsible. 967 00:38:42,407 --> 00:38:44,034 It read like a novel. 968 00:38:44,034 --> 00:38:45,077 It was funny. 969 00:38:45,077 --> 00:38:46,870 It had all this action in it, 970 00:38:46,870 --> 00:38:48,955 you know, but it read in- in a way that you just 971 00:38:48,955 --> 00:38:49,956 could not put it down. 972 00:38:49,956 --> 00:38:50,707 He would tell me what to read. 973 00:38:50,707 --> 00:38:51,124 I was like, wait. 974 00:38:51,124 --> 00:38:53,126 Okay, I'm gonna read it so now I know 975 00:38:53,126 --> 00:38:54,920 what action I'm gonna do. 976 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,589 And I'd start reading and I'd forget 977 00:38:57,589 --> 00:38:59,675 to read for the stunts and I just would read 978 00:38:59,675 --> 00:39:00,384 the whole thing again. 979 00:39:00,384 --> 00:39:01,677 It happened four times. 980 00:39:01,677 --> 00:39:03,512 That was when I first had my kind of like 981 00:39:03,512 --> 00:39:06,640 professional moment of, "Holy shit. 982 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,433 I'm gonna be a part of something magic." 983 00:39:15,941 --> 00:39:19,319 Quentin has it as Boomer is this part of The Bride 984 00:39:19,319 --> 00:39:21,446 and Zoë is this part of The Bride. 985 00:39:21,446 --> 00:39:23,573 Whatever's in front of the camera is different parts 986 00:39:23,573 --> 00:39:24,908 of the same whole. 987 00:39:24,908 --> 00:39:26,868 We were doing the scene where she runs up 988 00:39:26,868 --> 00:39:27,703 the banister. 989 00:39:27,703 --> 00:39:29,037 And he came to me and he was like, 990 00:39:29,037 --> 00:39:31,081 "So, what are you doing in the shot?" 991 00:39:31,081 --> 00:39:33,709 And I was like, I'm running up the banister. 992 00:39:33,709 --> 00:39:34,751 And he was like, "Yeah, but why?" 993 00:39:34,751 --> 00:39:37,838 And I was like, trick question. 994 00:39:37,838 --> 00:39:38,839 'Cause that's my job." 995 00:39:38,839 --> 00:39:39,589 You know, and he was like, "No, 996 00:39:39,589 --> 00:39:42,050 but why is The Bride running up the banister?" 997 00:39:42,050 --> 00:39:45,303 and I was like, "Oh, to get to O-Ren." 998 00:39:45,303 --> 00:39:47,889 And he was like, "And why is she trying to get to O-Ren?" 999 00:39:49,099 --> 00:39:50,600 It sounds like such actor-speak, 1000 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,186 but my running up the banister shifted, 1001 00:39:53,186 --> 00:39:54,771 because now I have an intention. 1002 00:39:54,771 --> 00:39:56,523 Now I have a reason outside of 1003 00:39:56,523 --> 00:39:58,316 just technically getting it right. 1004 00:39:58,316 --> 00:40:00,736 That was always super important to Quentin, 1005 00:40:00,736 --> 00:40:02,446 "'cause that bitch fucked up my life 1006 00:40:02,446 --> 00:40:03,405 and I want her to die." 1007 00:40:07,659 --> 00:40:10,829 The fact that he always has women in these strong 1008 00:40:10,829 --> 00:40:14,124 positions isn't something that he necessarily 1009 00:40:14,124 --> 00:40:16,334 highlights or billboards. (overlapping) (whistles) 1010 00:40:16,334 --> 00:40:17,961 To him, of course, it makes sense 1011 00:40:17,961 --> 00:40:21,840 these are women doing this, are fighting or are leaders. 1012 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:22,799 He does it and, it's for him, 1013 00:40:22,799 --> 00:40:23,717 it's just natural. 1014 00:40:23,717 --> 00:40:26,845 It's such an interesting conversation to have these days, 1015 00:40:27,763 --> 00:40:31,516 girl power and a quality that sort of feels like 1016 00:40:31,516 --> 00:40:34,269 it's all kind of coming to a head. 1017 00:40:34,269 --> 00:40:38,148 The biggest feat is gonna be making it normal 1018 00:40:38,148 --> 00:40:41,026 that we are in lead positions as opposed to 1019 00:40:41,026 --> 00:40:42,360 it being the fight. 1020 00:40:43,403 --> 00:40:46,698 And that's where Quentin is just a priceless ally. 1021 00:40:46,698 --> 00:40:48,867 And I think he needs to sit in an interview and be like, 1022 00:40:48,867 --> 00:40:50,494 "Listen, women should have these roles 1023 00:40:50,494 --> 00:40:50,827 and women..." 1024 00:40:50,827 --> 00:40:53,705 Like he doesn't have to drive it because he's- 1025 00:40:53,705 --> 00:40:55,957 he's just presenting it as such. 1026 00:40:55,957 --> 00:40:58,585 Now if any of you sons of bitches (yells) 1027 00:40:58,585 --> 00:41:03,215 got anything else to say, now's the fuckin' time! 1028 00:41:03,215 --> 00:41:07,594 O-Ren Ishii is a survivor. 1029 00:41:12,474 --> 00:41:16,436 She is a woman who was probably never going to die 1030 00:41:16,436 --> 00:41:18,396 peacefully of old age. 1031 00:41:18,396 --> 00:41:20,065 She swore revenge. 1032 00:41:21,024 --> 00:41:23,068 It only made sense that in the end, 1033 00:41:23,068 --> 00:41:25,362 in her great honor, she was killed 1034 00:41:25,362 --> 00:41:27,030 with the Hattori Hanso sword. 1035 00:41:31,326 --> 00:41:33,703 Uma worked her ass off and was in training 1036 00:41:33,703 --> 00:41:36,206 for a long time before I was even on board. 1037 00:41:36,206 --> 00:41:37,582 She had a crazy schedule. 1038 00:41:37,582 --> 00:41:39,376 She was in just about every shot. 1039 00:41:39,376 --> 00:41:42,003 We were shooting in Beijing. 1040 00:41:42,003 --> 00:41:43,255 She had a newborn. 1041 00:41:44,422 --> 00:41:47,384 She was under intense amounts of physical pressure. 1042 00:41:47,384 --> 00:41:49,427 (grunts) (grunts) 1043 00:41:49,427 --> 00:41:50,679 Cut. Great. 1044 00:41:50,679 --> 00:41:51,221 Excellent. 1045 00:41:51,221 --> 00:41:51,763 Excellent. 1046 00:41:51,763 --> 00:41:55,141 Check (indistinct) (laughs) 1047 00:41:55,141 --> 00:41:57,644 Like, you know, she was in pain a lot of the time. 1048 00:41:57,644 --> 00:42:00,355 She was sort of like, she had blisters and cuts, 1049 00:42:00,355 --> 00:42:00,730 things like that. 1050 00:42:00,730 --> 00:42:03,108 It's just part of the- the deal. 1051 00:42:03,108 --> 00:42:04,234 It feels good to be tough. 1052 00:42:04,234 --> 00:42:06,152 It's strangely sort of liberating. 1053 00:42:06,152 --> 00:42:07,779 Yeah, I'm bleeding. 1054 00:42:07,779 --> 00:42:08,405 Keep rolling. 1055 00:42:09,489 --> 00:42:13,076 The girl fight between Uma and, uh, 1056 00:42:13,076 --> 00:42:16,121 Vivica Fox in Kill Bill is, 1057 00:42:16,121 --> 00:42:18,331 without a doubt, the greatest fight 1058 00:42:18,331 --> 00:42:20,667 any two women ever had in a movie. 1059 00:42:20,667 --> 00:42:22,252 It's crazy good. 1060 00:42:32,637 --> 00:42:35,056 Vivica and Uma just were so great in that scene. 1061 00:42:35,056 --> 00:42:36,391 When I'd sit there and watch, 1062 00:42:36,391 --> 00:42:37,893 I'd forget that I was there to do a job. 1063 00:42:37,893 --> 00:42:39,185 When the daughter comes in the door, 1064 00:42:39,185 --> 00:42:41,396 I'm just like God, it's beautiful. 1065 00:42:41,396 --> 00:42:44,649 The mother versus assassin just like 1066 00:42:44,649 --> 00:42:46,902 (clicks tongue) in one shot. Perfect. 1067 00:42:47,611 --> 00:42:48,737 Mommy, I'm home. 1068 00:42:48,737 --> 00:42:50,238 Hey, baby. 1069 00:42:50,238 --> 00:42:51,781 How was school? 1070 00:42:51,781 --> 00:42:53,283 It softened everything. 1071 00:42:53,283 --> 00:42:54,242 Just amazing. 1072 00:42:54,242 --> 00:42:55,785 And- and- and The Bride sells it, 1073 00:42:55,785 --> 00:42:57,621 too, because she knows, you know. 1074 00:42:58,705 --> 00:42:59,706 It's just genius. 1075 00:42:59,706 --> 00:43:02,876 It's absolute, irrevocable genius, man. 1076 00:43:02,876 --> 00:43:06,004 There's a viciousness and yet their femininity 1077 00:43:06,004 --> 00:43:07,797 never went away for a second. 1078 00:43:09,132 --> 00:43:11,134 It's all about presentation. 1079 00:43:11,134 --> 00:43:12,928 You walk through a shoji screen and then, 1080 00:43:12,928 --> 00:43:15,722 suddenly, there's this winter wonderland. 1081 00:43:18,141 --> 00:43:22,562 He really worked with the designers to create this 1082 00:43:22,562 --> 00:43:25,357 beautiful visual that also turned into a wonderful 1083 00:43:25,357 --> 00:43:27,901 sound backdrop for what we were doing. 1084 00:43:29,736 --> 00:43:31,154 There's the bamboo water fountain. 1085 00:43:31,154 --> 00:43:33,114 It almost acts as a metronome. 1086 00:43:33,907 --> 00:43:37,994 It was absolutely beautiful, 1087 00:43:37,994 --> 00:43:40,246 like when you are watching something from another time. 1088 00:43:41,581 --> 00:43:43,458 It's one of the perfect examples of movie magic 1089 00:43:43,458 --> 00:43:46,795 where the practicality of it was kind of difficult. 1090 00:43:47,587 --> 00:43:50,757 The snow we were using was sort of difficult to breathe. 1091 00:43:50,757 --> 00:43:51,758 So in between takes, 1092 00:43:51,758 --> 00:43:54,302 we had the protective masks on and, you know, 1093 00:43:54,302 --> 00:43:56,429 we were constantly having to cover our footprints. 1094 00:43:59,391 --> 00:44:03,061 And action! 1095 00:44:03,061 --> 00:44:04,062 Women work for him. 1096 00:44:04,062 --> 00:44:06,982 They are fiercely loyal 'cause he actually 1097 00:44:06,982 --> 00:44:08,733 is very protective of them. 1098 00:44:08,733 --> 00:44:10,068 He promotes them. 1099 00:44:10,068 --> 00:44:11,861 He works creatively with them. 1100 00:44:11,861 --> 00:44:13,822 And when you look at the female characters 1101 00:44:13,822 --> 00:44:15,031 in his films, 1102 00:44:15,031 --> 00:44:16,908 they're all quite remarkable. 1103 00:44:17,742 --> 00:44:18,702 Cut! Okay? 1104 00:44:18,702 --> 00:44:20,412 Yeah. Terrific! 1105 00:44:24,165 --> 00:44:25,041 You guys were great. 1106 00:44:25,041 --> 00:44:26,292 That was terrific. 1107 00:44:26,292 --> 00:44:27,711 Part of me still feels like I don't want to talk 1108 00:44:27,711 --> 00:44:30,797 about it because I don't want people to- to know. 1109 00:44:30,797 --> 00:44:34,551 (indistinct) It was the camera angle 1110 00:44:34,551 --> 00:44:37,178 that sold the fact that my head had been cut off 1111 00:44:38,138 --> 00:44:40,974 so I look like I had a little bit of a cone head in real life. 1112 00:44:40,974 --> 00:44:42,308 And then when you see it in the movie, 1113 00:44:42,308 --> 00:44:44,060 it's just like angels are singing. 1114 00:44:48,898 --> 00:44:50,483 There's something beautiful in understanding 1115 00:44:50,483 --> 00:44:52,277 that- that is done in camera. 1116 00:44:55,238 --> 00:44:56,573 That was completely practical 1117 00:44:56,573 --> 00:44:58,616 because you know Quentin doesn't, 1118 00:44:58,616 --> 00:45:00,994 is a fan of avoiding CGI when possible. 1119 00:45:07,250 --> 00:45:08,752 He adores Uma. 1120 00:45:10,420 --> 00:45:13,381 And nobody was more enthusiastic than Quentin. 1121 00:45:13,381 --> 00:45:16,760 I mean, he's still like a kid when he gets worked up. 1122 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,470 Sometimes you do dumb things. 1123 00:45:30,023 --> 00:45:32,484 This is the thing with this business. 1124 00:45:32,484 --> 00:45:37,739 You make the best level of plans and you have great people. 1125 00:45:40,742 --> 00:45:42,827 And then sometimes there's human error. 1126 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:54,923 Everyone was just having 1127 00:45:54,923 --> 00:45:56,925 fun making a movie. 1128 00:45:57,759 --> 00:45:59,511 And everybody was damn happy to be on a 1129 00:45:59,511 --> 00:46:02,097 set with Quentin Tarantino. 1130 00:46:02,097 --> 00:46:04,516 And everybody was damn happy to be represented 1131 00:46:04,516 --> 00:46:06,726 and distributed by Harvey Weinstein 1132 00:46:06,726 --> 00:46:07,811 and the Weinstein Company. 1133 00:46:15,318 --> 00:46:17,821 What was weird about Harvey is, 1134 00:46:17,821 --> 00:46:19,531 and this was true of his relationship with 1135 00:46:19,531 --> 00:46:21,741 competitors and with people, 1136 00:46:21,741 --> 00:46:24,369 was he- he was a bully and he enjoyed it. 1137 00:46:24,369 --> 00:46:28,540 He had this- this enormous power that, 1138 00:46:30,208 --> 00:46:33,169 I know he was conscious that he had it, 1139 00:46:33,169 --> 00:46:36,005 and I know that he would consciously use it, 1140 00:46:38,341 --> 00:46:41,636 but whether or not he realized he was using it 1141 00:46:41,636 --> 00:46:45,140 in such an obstructive way, 1142 00:46:45,140 --> 00:46:46,766 I don't know about that. 1143 00:46:46,766 --> 00:46:49,352 I'll tell you a funny thing that happened in Cannes. 1144 00:46:49,352 --> 00:46:51,938 I was at this little reception thing with Quentin. 1145 00:46:51,938 --> 00:46:54,399 Here comes Harvey and he comes around the corner 1146 00:46:54,399 --> 00:46:57,152 and he's sweating, like profusely sweating. 1147 00:46:57,152 --> 00:46:59,821 And he's got this really angry face, you know. 1148 00:46:59,821 --> 00:47:01,865 You see a Harvey Weinstein in that mood, 1149 00:47:03,783 --> 00:47:06,035 everybody literally froze. 1150 00:47:06,035 --> 00:47:08,037 And right before he had come in the room, 1151 00:47:08,037 --> 00:47:10,039 Quentin had introduced me to Harvey's wife 1152 00:47:10,039 --> 00:47:11,082 and his little daughter. 1153 00:47:11,082 --> 00:47:14,502 And the little daughter had a doll in her hand 1154 00:47:14,502 --> 00:47:17,964 and she had handed me the doll while we were talking. 1155 00:47:17,964 --> 00:47:21,426 And so I was holding the doll when Harvey came around 1156 00:47:21,426 --> 00:47:23,469 the corner and came into the room. 1157 00:47:23,469 --> 00:47:26,222 And he looked at me and he looked at Quentin 1158 00:47:26,222 --> 00:47:28,475 and he looked at his wife and child 1159 00:47:28,475 --> 00:47:30,518 and he sized up the situation 1160 00:47:30,518 --> 00:47:33,146 and he took the doll out of my hand 1161 00:47:33,146 --> 00:47:35,482 and handed it back to his little kid, to his daughter. 1162 00:47:36,816 --> 00:47:38,401 And Quentin goes, "Harvey, Harvey, 1163 00:47:38,401 --> 00:47:38,985 what are you doing? 1164 00:47:38,985 --> 00:47:41,821 He goes, Michael's gonna do The Hateful Eight. 1165 00:47:41,821 --> 00:47:44,407 Michael's gonna do The Hateful Eight with us." 1166 00:47:44,407 --> 00:47:47,118 And Harvey kind of- kind of stood there 1167 00:47:47,118 --> 00:47:48,745 and his eyes were shifting back and forth 1168 00:47:48,745 --> 00:47:52,665 and he was thinking on his feet. 1169 00:47:52,665 --> 00:47:54,000 Mm. Mm. Mm. (scoffs) And, all of a sudden, he went 1170 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,835 and he took the doll from the little girl 1171 00:47:55,835 --> 00:47:57,003 and gave it back to me. 1172 00:47:57,003 --> 00:48:02,050 And I- I took it and I -- I- I didn't know what to say. 1173 00:48:02,050 --> 00:48:03,134 I mean it was like... 1174 00:48:03,134 --> 00:48:05,887 And he walked away right in that moment. 1175 00:48:05,887 --> 00:48:09,307 He gave me the damn the thing and then he walked away. 1176 00:48:09,307 --> 00:48:11,643 And I remember going, oh, my God. 1177 00:48:11,643 --> 00:48:13,478 And Quentin was laughing hysterically. 1178 00:48:13,478 --> 00:48:15,396 When Quentin finds something funny and he laughs, 1179 00:48:15,396 --> 00:48:16,856 he's got a great laugh. 1180 00:48:16,856 --> 00:48:19,776 And, of course, I gave the doll back to the girl. 1181 00:48:19,776 --> 00:48:21,819 It was very strange and I'll never forget it. 1182 00:48:21,819 --> 00:48:23,655 It was like, wow. 1183 00:48:23,655 --> 00:48:25,114 Where did that come from? 1184 00:48:25,114 --> 00:48:26,616 Holy shit. 1185 00:48:26,616 --> 00:48:28,117 You know a year later, you know, 1186 00:48:28,117 --> 00:48:29,452 the guy's being indicted. 1187 00:48:41,464 --> 00:48:43,675 Quentin loves genre. 1188 00:48:47,470 --> 00:48:50,598 He used to do his QT Fest in Austin. 1189 00:48:50,598 --> 00:48:54,018 There's a big rule that we have during this festival. 1190 00:48:54,018 --> 00:48:57,063 You don't laugh to show that you're superior 1191 00:48:57,063 --> 00:49:00,817 than the movie or how much cooler you are than the movie, 1192 00:49:00,817 --> 00:49:02,652 because I'm telling you nobody here is cooler 1193 00:49:02,652 --> 00:49:03,903 than this movie. 1194 00:49:03,903 --> 00:49:05,530 These movies are fuckin' cool. 1195 00:49:05,530 --> 00:49:07,073 For ten days he would show movies. 1196 00:49:07,073 --> 00:49:08,908 He would have double features every night, 1197 00:49:08,908 --> 00:49:10,326 some nights triple features, 1198 00:49:10,326 --> 00:49:14,914 and showed Asian films and genre films from all over. 1199 00:49:14,914 --> 00:49:16,708 Constantly people would talk movies with him, 1200 00:49:16,708 --> 00:49:18,084 which is what he loves. 1201 00:49:18,084 --> 00:49:19,919 And so I think there was a period of time 1202 00:49:19,919 --> 00:49:22,714 where Austin was a very safe haven for Quentin. 1203 00:49:22,714 --> 00:49:24,257 Quentin and Robert were hanging out a 1204 00:49:24,257 --> 00:49:25,800 lot together at that time. 1205 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:27,427 I remember Quentin and Robert took me 1206 00:49:27,427 --> 00:49:29,512 and Edgar right out for Mexican food. 1207 00:49:29,512 --> 00:49:30,430 And they told us the 1208 00:49:30,430 --> 00:49:32,849 whole concept of Grindhouse. 1209 00:49:32,849 --> 00:49:34,601 Quentin's part of Grindhouse 1210 00:49:34,601 --> 00:49:35,310 is extraordinary. 1211 00:49:35,310 --> 00:49:36,686 I think it's so smart. 1212 00:49:36,686 --> 00:49:38,771 It's like lots of people have done 1213 00:49:38,771 --> 00:49:40,356 chase films and lots of people have 1214 00:49:40,356 --> 00:49:41,733 done revenge films. 1215 00:49:41,733 --> 00:49:45,486 And it is such a remarkable pro woman, 1216 00:49:45,486 --> 00:49:48,364 feminist, but also cinematic, 1217 00:49:48,364 --> 00:49:51,367 a visionary cinematic, exciting film. 1218 00:49:52,702 --> 00:49:53,536 He rang me and was like, 1219 00:49:53,536 --> 00:49:55,121 Zoë, I've finished the script for Death Proof. 1220 00:49:55,121 --> 00:49:58,041 He had told me that it was gonna be about a stunt guy 1221 00:49:58,041 --> 00:49:59,917 whose car was death proof 1222 00:49:59,917 --> 00:50:01,336 and that he killed women with it. 1223 00:50:02,462 --> 00:50:04,839 Every troupe that you've seen where a woman is 1224 00:50:04,839 --> 00:50:08,259 brutalized is referred to 1225 00:50:08,259 --> 00:50:10,011 and then he flips it on its head. 1226 00:50:10,011 --> 00:50:11,387 Hey! 1227 00:50:11,387 --> 00:50:13,639 (screams) Now I want blood. 1228 00:50:13,639 --> 00:50:14,932 It's about redemption. 1229 00:50:14,932 --> 00:50:15,975 It's about power. 1230 00:50:15,975 --> 00:50:17,352 It's about feminism. 1231 00:50:17,352 --> 00:50:18,811 (grunts) Oh, you want... (grunts) 1232 00:50:18,811 --> 00:50:22,148 He makes roles for women that he wants to see. 1233 00:50:22,148 --> 00:50:24,692 I remember saying to him, "As long as you cast 1234 00:50:24,692 --> 00:50:27,070 someone in the movie that looks like me so I can work on it." 1235 00:50:27,070 --> 00:50:28,488 Nice. 1236 00:50:28,488 --> 00:50:29,947 Nice. Thank you. 1237 00:50:29,947 --> 00:50:30,281 Yep. 1238 00:50:30,281 --> 00:50:31,324 Like, it's on you, buddy. 1239 00:50:31,324 --> 00:50:32,575 Like if I'm terrible at this, 1240 00:50:32,575 --> 00:50:35,828 if I fuck it up, it's your fault. 1241 00:50:35,828 --> 00:50:36,829 (inhales) And he, at one point, was like, 1242 00:50:36,829 --> 00:50:37,664 "Look, this is my job. 1243 00:50:37,664 --> 00:50:39,082 This is what I do. 1244 00:50:39,082 --> 00:50:41,376 I make good casting choices." 1245 00:50:41,376 --> 00:50:43,378 And he said, "I know you and I know what I want 1246 00:50:43,378 --> 00:50:44,796 and I know I can get it." 1247 00:50:44,796 --> 00:50:46,047 So you just need to relax 1248 00:50:46,047 --> 00:50:47,548 and know your lines. 1249 00:50:47,548 --> 00:50:48,007 I remember... 1250 00:50:48,007 --> 00:50:49,550 ..thinking this is like a, 1251 00:50:49,550 --> 00:50:52,178 yeah, it's a great night at the theater, 1252 00:50:52,178 --> 00:50:53,638 you know, in nineteen seventy. 1253 00:50:56,140 --> 00:50:58,434 I'd gone in and interviewed for those 1254 00:50:58,434 --> 00:51:01,229 kinds of movies, you know, so I knew, 1255 00:51:01,229 --> 00:51:01,687 I knew them. 1256 00:51:01,687 --> 00:51:02,480 I knew what he was doing. 1257 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:03,523 I thought it was pretty great. 1258 00:51:03,523 --> 00:51:05,983 Do I frighten you? 1259 00:51:05,983 --> 00:51:07,485 I was what a stuntman would look like. 1260 00:51:07,485 --> 00:51:09,028 Big scar, that (indistinct). 1261 00:51:09,028 --> 00:51:10,029 He goes, "Yeah, let's do the eyes." 1262 00:51:10,029 --> 00:51:11,239 And you mean big, don't you? and he said, 1263 00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:12,115 "Oh, yeah." 1264 00:51:12,115 --> 00:51:14,534 The old school action hero and the stunt guy are 1265 00:51:14,534 --> 00:51:16,285 really important to him and I think this was an 1266 00:51:16,285 --> 00:51:17,703 exciting way for him to say thank you 1267 00:51:17,703 --> 00:51:20,123 to the stunt people of- of the industry. 1268 00:51:20,123 --> 00:51:20,915 Now. 1269 00:51:20,915 --> 00:51:22,708 That's that Quentin magic is- is getting as 1270 00:51:22,708 --> 00:51:24,293 much of it to be as real as possible. 1271 00:51:24,293 --> 00:51:27,338 (groan) (scream) We're doing ninety miles 1272 00:51:27,338 --> 00:51:29,841 an hour for a lot of that stuff down that road. 1273 00:51:29,841 --> 00:51:32,301 She's strapped to the hood of that car. 1274 00:51:32,301 --> 00:51:33,511 There's nothing you can do. 1275 00:51:33,511 --> 00:51:36,222 If he catches his tire on the edge of the road 1276 00:51:36,222 --> 00:51:39,225 and we go over, that's it for Zoë. 1277 00:51:39,225 --> 00:51:40,768 It's not gonna be a broken arm. 1278 00:51:40,768 --> 00:51:41,519 He came up to me one time and he's like, 1279 00:51:41,519 --> 00:51:42,478 "Zoë, come and look at this." 1280 00:51:42,478 --> 00:51:44,063 And I sat there and I was all excited to see it and 1281 00:51:44,063 --> 00:51:45,857 I was watching it and I was like, 1282 00:51:45,857 --> 00:51:46,399 "Oh, my God. 1283 00:51:46,399 --> 00:51:47,275 It looks amazing." 1284 00:51:47,275 --> 00:51:48,484 I was so over the moon. 1285 00:51:48,484 --> 00:51:49,569 He was like, "What's wrong with it?" 1286 00:51:49,569 --> 00:51:50,069 And I was like, "What? 1287 00:51:50,069 --> 00:51:50,736 What are you talking about? 1288 00:51:50,736 --> 00:51:51,696 There's nothing wrong with that. 1289 00:51:51,696 --> 00:51:53,322 That's fuckin' gold." 1290 00:51:53,322 --> 00:51:54,490 He was like, there's something wrong with it. 1291 00:51:54,490 --> 00:51:54,907 What is it? 1292 00:51:54,907 --> 00:51:57,410 And I was like, "I don't know, Quentin. 1293 00:51:57,410 --> 00:51:59,036 I think you're being a bit fussy." 1294 00:51:59,036 --> 00:52:01,205 You know, and he was like, "What don't we see in the 1295 00:52:01,205 --> 00:52:02,790 whole four minutes?" 1296 00:52:02,790 --> 00:52:03,666 And I was like, "What? 1297 00:52:03,666 --> 00:52:05,334 (gasps) My face." 1298 00:52:05,334 --> 00:52:08,296 And we never once saw my face because my job for 1299 00:52:08,296 --> 00:52:10,673 so long had been to know exactly 1300 00:52:10,673 --> 00:52:12,258 where the camera was so I'd avoid it. 1301 00:52:12,258 --> 00:52:13,134 I'd have an arm up. 1302 00:52:13,134 --> 00:52:15,678 I'd use my hair or my body or whatever, 1303 00:52:15,678 --> 00:52:16,762 'cause that was my job. 1304 00:52:16,762 --> 00:52:19,348 If you saw my face, the take was ruined. 1305 00:52:19,348 --> 00:52:19,765 And he was like, 1306 00:52:19,765 --> 00:52:20,892 "I love that you're that good at it, 1307 00:52:20,892 --> 00:52:22,602 but I need you to reverse it because the 1308 00:52:22,602 --> 00:52:25,938 whole point of this is that we can see it's you." 1309 00:52:27,482 --> 00:52:30,151 He loves to help actors get to a place 1310 00:52:30,151 --> 00:52:32,487 where they can completely bring it. 1311 00:52:35,865 --> 00:52:37,783 So how's Quentin different from other directors? 1312 00:52:37,783 --> 00:52:41,996 (laughs) I never, never fear 1313 00:52:41,996 --> 00:52:43,998 that my joy is gonna be cut off. 1314 00:52:43,998 --> 00:52:44,624 Wahoo! 1315 00:52:44,624 --> 00:52:49,504 (laughs) Hey, ladies, that was fun. 1316 00:52:49,504 --> 00:52:54,342 (laughs) Acting in Death Proof was a blast. 1317 00:52:54,342 --> 00:52:56,052 We had so much fun. I mean, it's a bar scene. 1318 00:52:56,052 --> 00:52:57,720 Quentin is a bartender. 1319 00:52:57,720 --> 00:52:59,305 And there was one scene where Quentin had 1320 00:52:59,305 --> 00:53:00,640 to do these Irish car bombs. 1321 00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,517 And Quentin's like, "It's got to be real or the foam 1322 00:53:02,517 --> 00:53:03,559 won't be correct." 1323 00:53:03,559 --> 00:53:05,937 And Quentin's like "I can't be there to see 1324 00:53:05,937 --> 00:53:08,105 how the take looks, so this is a long take. 1325 00:53:08,105 --> 00:53:09,232 You've- you've got to do this right, 1326 00:53:09,232 --> 00:53:11,859 but I'm drinking real Guinness and real Jager. 1327 00:53:11,859 --> 00:53:12,860 You guys can't fuck it up." 1328 00:53:12,860 --> 00:53:13,110 Right. 1329 00:53:13,110 --> 00:53:13,694 Okay, okay. 1330 00:53:13,694 --> 00:53:14,278 Everyone's ready. 1331 00:53:14,278 --> 00:53:14,987 Last shot of the night. 1332 00:53:14,987 --> 00:53:16,239 It's like six-thirty in the morning. Aah! 1333 00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:19,116 So we're like, boom, boom, boom, boom. 1334 00:53:19,116 --> 00:53:20,451 And Quentin's like, how'd it turn out, Jimmy. 1335 00:53:20,451 --> 00:53:23,246 And he's like, actually that was- that was great. 1336 00:53:23,246 --> 00:53:24,163 Quentin said, "Cool, cool. 1337 00:53:24,163 --> 00:53:25,206 We should get one for safety, 1338 00:53:25,206 --> 00:53:26,082 right?" 1339 00:53:26,082 --> 00:53:26,791 Boom, boom. 1340 00:53:26,791 --> 00:53:28,501 He drinks another shot, drinks another shot. 1341 00:53:28,501 --> 00:53:30,503 And I don't know how, but we started singing this 1342 00:53:30,503 --> 00:53:32,839 song from Blazing Saddles, where I was like, 1343 00:53:32,839 --> 00:53:34,507 (sings) din-din-din-in, din-din-din. 1344 00:53:34,507 --> 00:53:35,091 (sings) Throw out your hands, 1345 00:53:35,091 --> 00:53:35,842 Stick out your tush... (sings) Throw out your hands, 1346 00:53:35,842 --> 00:53:38,261 (speaks) And I just started doing it to Quentin. 1347 00:53:38,261 --> 00:53:39,720 And he just started laughing. 1348 00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:41,138 And he's like, "Ah, that was so fun. 1349 00:53:41,138 --> 00:53:42,223 He's like, "Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1350 00:53:42,223 --> 00:53:43,558 Let's- let's just do another one." 1351 00:53:43,558 --> 00:53:45,309 And we're like, yeah, but now it's like 1352 00:53:45,309 --> 00:53:46,561 seven fifteen in the morning. 1353 00:53:46,561 --> 00:53:47,979 And so Quentin's like, 1354 00:53:47,979 --> 00:53:49,438 "Action!" And he goes, 1355 00:53:49,438 --> 00:53:53,150 "pshew" and slams the glass down and shatters it 1356 00:53:53,150 --> 00:53:56,862 and cuts his hand and falls off the table laughing. 1357 00:53:56,862 --> 00:54:00,408 And he's like, "Ah-ha-ha-ha! 1358 00:54:00,408 --> 00:54:02,368 That was so funny. 1359 00:54:02,368 --> 00:54:04,161 Oh, my God!" 1360 00:54:04,161 --> 00:54:07,039 I think we did about twelve takes. 1361 00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:09,792 Finally at like, maybe it's eight-forty-five 1362 00:54:09,792 --> 00:54:12,378 in the morning, I was leaving and Quentin, like, 1363 00:54:12,378 --> 00:54:13,170 grabbed my arm. He's like, 1364 00:54:13,170 --> 00:54:14,213 "You're stayin' and you're having a drink with us, right?" 1365 00:54:14,213 --> 00:54:15,131 I said, "Yeah, yeah. 1366 00:54:15,131 --> 00:54:15,715 Let me be right back." 1367 00:54:15,715 --> 00:54:16,674 And I like ran away 1368 00:54:16,674 --> 00:54:19,051 back to the hotel to sleep. I don't know. 1369 00:54:19,051 --> 00:54:20,803 All I heard was someone may have been puking 1370 00:54:20,803 --> 00:54:21,887 in a dumpster at eleven o'clock the next morning. 1371 00:54:24,140 --> 00:54:26,851 when I saw Death Proof, 1372 00:54:26,851 --> 00:54:29,145 in that scene 1373 00:54:29,145 --> 00:54:31,397 where the girls are sitting in the car 1374 00:54:31,397 --> 00:54:34,567 driving and talking, nothing happens. 1375 00:54:34,567 --> 00:54:39,947 They don't say anything that's really relevant to anything. 1376 00:54:39,947 --> 00:54:43,701 It goes on and it goes on and I think it goes on for 1377 00:54:43,701 --> 00:54:45,036 forty-five minutes, 1378 00:54:45,036 --> 00:54:48,831 and they are still driving and talking. 1379 00:54:48,831 --> 00:54:56,380 And I was so smitten by that moment that it really 1380 00:54:56,380 --> 00:55:01,802 clicked that- that yeah, despite all the 1381 00:55:01,802 --> 00:55:05,598 extraordinary entertainment that these 1382 00:55:05,598 --> 00:55:13,648 movies deliver, there is an allure and a suction 1383 00:55:13,648 --> 00:55:15,399 that pulls you in. 1384 00:55:17,068 --> 00:55:21,906 There is always that, this- this strength in it. 1385 00:55:21,906 --> 00:55:24,450 (sings) Where the hell are my keys? 1386 00:55:24,450 --> 00:55:25,368 Here they are. 1387 00:55:50,643 --> 00:55:53,562 I think Quentin's influence on film is twofold. 1388 00:55:53,562 --> 00:55:55,439 One is that he's empowered 1389 00:55:55,439 --> 00:55:57,233 a lot of half-ass filmmakers to make some 1390 00:55:57,233 --> 00:55:59,360 very bad films because they don't know 1391 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:00,861 how to watch his films. 1392 00:56:00,861 --> 00:56:02,321 They miss the poetry 1393 00:56:02,321 --> 00:56:05,783 and the elegance and the eloquence of his filmmaking. 1394 00:56:05,783 --> 00:56:07,702 And so they go and they- they had a lot of, 1395 00:56:07,702 --> 00:56:09,870 you know, bizarre violence and- and people 1396 00:56:09,870 --> 00:56:13,666 mistreating people and they miss his passionate humanism. 1397 00:56:13,666 --> 00:56:16,502 Inglourious Basterds, this is a film that teaches 1398 00:56:16,502 --> 00:56:19,338 filmmakers how to make movies because the opening 1399 00:56:19,338 --> 00:56:24,135 scene is literally Quentin saying to everybody, 1400 00:56:24,135 --> 00:56:25,720 "Oh, you think you know who I am, 1401 00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:27,221 and you think you know what I can do, 1402 00:56:27,221 --> 00:56:29,306 and you think you've seen a war movie before. 1403 00:56:29,306 --> 00:56:30,725 Well, I'm gonna mess with you 1404 00:56:30,725 --> 00:56:33,102 in a way you haven't even begun to think." 1405 00:56:35,479 --> 00:56:36,564 Papa! 1406 00:56:36,564 --> 00:56:37,815 That I'm in control. 1407 00:56:37,815 --> 00:56:39,692 Then you were in the palm of my hands 1408 00:56:39,692 --> 00:56:42,027 and you're on my trip. 1409 00:56:42,027 --> 00:56:43,904 The German general comes in. 1410 00:56:43,904 --> 00:56:46,532 You can't quite figure out why he's being so friendly. 1411 00:56:49,410 --> 00:56:51,620 And you don't know why are they so scared? 1412 00:56:54,957 --> 00:56:55,708 And then at a certain point, 1413 00:56:55,708 --> 00:56:57,793 Quentin takes you under the house. 1414 00:56:59,795 --> 00:57:02,089 And it's really a horrific moment. 1415 00:57:06,844 --> 00:57:08,763 You know, it's not Robert Wise with The Haunting 1416 00:57:08,763 --> 00:57:10,556 where he's freaking you out with camera angles. 1417 00:57:10,556 --> 00:57:13,058 It's not Toby Hooper's, uh, 1418 00:57:13,058 --> 00:57:14,185 Texas Chainsaw where 1419 00:57:14,185 --> 00:57:15,895 he's like shoving your face in it. 1420 00:57:15,895 --> 00:57:17,563 It's what's not happening. 1421 00:57:17,563 --> 00:57:20,357 A German soldier conducts a search of a house 1422 00:57:20,357 --> 00:57:22,902 suspected of hiding Jews. 1423 00:57:22,902 --> 00:57:24,403 Where does the hawk look? 1424 00:57:24,403 --> 00:57:25,571 He looks in the barn. 1425 00:57:25,571 --> 00:57:26,614 He looks in the attic. 1426 00:57:26,614 --> 00:57:27,782 He looks in the cellar. 1427 00:57:27,782 --> 00:57:31,285 He looks everywhere he would hide. 1428 00:57:31,285 --> 00:57:33,204 But there's so many places that wouldn't even have 1429 00:57:33,204 --> 00:57:35,414 occurred to a hawk to hide. 1430 00:57:35,414 --> 00:57:37,792 No, you're not turning a corner and suddenly having 1431 00:57:37,792 --> 00:57:38,793 a cat screech. 1432 00:57:38,793 --> 00:57:40,002 And you go, "Oh!" 1433 00:57:40,002 --> 00:57:41,003 It's not cutting. 1434 00:57:41,003 --> 00:57:44,131 It's all intellectual and it's all unbearable. 1435 00:57:45,341 --> 00:57:47,426 Point out to me the areas where they're hiding. 1436 00:58:07,029 --> 00:58:09,573 The dialogue is, 1437 00:58:09,573 --> 00:58:10,991 so to say, 1438 00:58:10,991 --> 00:58:13,160 the tiny tip of the iceberg. 1439 00:58:14,537 --> 00:58:15,996 It's a clue. 1440 00:58:20,626 --> 00:58:23,546 I thank you for your time. 1441 00:58:26,006 --> 00:58:28,050 We shan't be bothering your family any longer. 1442 00:58:29,009 --> 00:58:31,929 So Quentin, in his dialogue, 1443 00:58:31,929 --> 00:58:35,724 doesn't tell you how to say it, 1444 00:58:35,724 --> 00:58:39,395 but he gives you like a whole abundance 1445 00:58:39,395 --> 00:58:41,897 of elements of what to say. 1446 00:58:41,897 --> 00:58:43,023 ...adieu. 1447 00:58:46,652 --> 00:58:51,407 You derive fun from trying to figure that out. 1448 00:58:51,407 --> 00:58:53,534 That's it. 1449 00:58:53,534 --> 00:58:55,911 (chuckles) And Quentin starts there and then he 1450 00:58:55,911 --> 00:58:57,872 goes and messes in doing almost every other way he 1451 00:58:57,872 --> 00:59:00,207 can in terms of what a war film does. 1452 00:59:00,207 --> 00:59:03,961 (pants) (speaks French) 1453 00:59:03,961 --> 00:59:04,503 I remember the 1454 00:59:04,503 --> 00:59:06,088 first rehearsal from Inglourious Basterds. 1455 00:59:06,088 --> 00:59:08,090 We all sat around and everybody had our scripts 1456 00:59:08,090 --> 00:59:08,632 and we had our lines. 1457 00:59:08,632 --> 00:59:10,217 Quentin's like close your scripts. 1458 00:59:10,217 --> 00:59:11,844 And he's like, who are you? 1459 00:59:11,844 --> 00:59:13,262 And I was like, "I'm Donny Donowitz." 1460 00:59:13,262 --> 00:59:15,848 And you had to go on and on and on 1461 00:59:15,848 --> 00:59:17,141 about your backstory. 1462 00:59:17,141 --> 00:59:17,892 And he's like, "Well, how did you feel 1463 00:59:17,892 --> 00:59:19,351 when he joined the Basterds? 1464 00:59:19,351 --> 00:59:19,852 What did you think about 1465 00:59:19,852 --> 00:59:21,520 Stiglitz coming into the Basterds?" 1466 00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,272 Everybody had to have their answers ready. 1467 00:59:23,272 --> 00:59:25,524 And there was one person who didn't. 1468 00:59:25,524 --> 00:59:26,984 You! 1469 00:59:26,984 --> 00:59:27,651 And... 1470 00:59:27,651 --> 00:59:30,529 ...you weren't there the next day. 1471 00:59:30,529 --> 00:59:32,781 And that guy was an extra. 1472 00:59:32,781 --> 00:59:35,743 So I was really, really training for it. 1473 00:59:35,743 --> 00:59:38,120 And I knew the bat scene, that was the scene. 1474 00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:40,414 Like, this-It was like if I do nothing else in 1475 00:59:40,414 --> 00:59:42,958 my life, it is this scene. 1476 00:59:42,958 --> 00:59:44,710 You hear that? 1477 00:59:46,337 --> 00:59:47,129 Yes. 1478 00:59:50,424 --> 00:59:53,177 It's Sergeant Donny Donowitz. 1479 00:59:53,177 --> 00:59:55,763 You might know him better by his nickname, 1480 00:59:55,763 --> 00:59:58,182 The Bear Jew. 1481 00:59:58,182 --> 01:00:00,184 Quentin just gave me the most heroic... 1482 01:00:00,184 --> 01:00:03,687 The one they call "The Bear Jew"... 1483 01:00:03,687 --> 01:00:05,230 ...is a Golem! 1484 01:00:05,230 --> 01:00:06,565 He's like you have Brad Pitt 1485 01:00:06,565 --> 01:00:07,816 and Hitler building you up. 1486 01:00:07,816 --> 01:00:09,652 He's like this is gonna be your moment. 1487 01:00:09,652 --> 01:00:11,236 And, you know, I was gonna come out of this tunnel. 1488 01:00:11,236 --> 01:00:12,696 Quentin was like, "I got the best tunnel. 1489 01:00:12,696 --> 01:00:13,739 You're gonna be tapping with a bat and 1490 01:00:13,739 --> 01:00:14,865 you're gonna come out." 1491 01:00:14,865 --> 01:00:17,117 Well, I got some weights and we set up a punching bag, 1492 01:00:17,117 --> 01:00:19,203 so that Brad was doing the whole scene 1493 01:00:19,203 --> 01:00:21,580 and I was in the back and I was like lifting weights 1494 01:00:21,580 --> 01:00:23,374 and doing pull-ups, like, I wanted to be ready like- 1495 01:00:23,374 --> 01:00:24,124 like an animal. 1496 01:00:24,124 --> 01:00:25,542 And Quentin was like, all right, 1497 01:00:25,542 --> 01:00:26,335 we're gettin' to you after lunch. 1498 01:00:26,335 --> 01:00:26,418 We're gettin' to you. 1499 01:00:26,418 --> 01:00:27,378 And then by the end, he's like, 1500 01:00:27,378 --> 01:00:28,379 we're gonna do you next, so be ready, ready. 1501 01:00:28,379 --> 01:00:30,339 And he was like, well, that's a wrap. 1502 01:00:30,339 --> 01:00:30,965 And I was like (grunt). 1503 01:00:30,965 --> 01:00:32,341 And I would, like, sit there at the end of day 1504 01:00:32,341 --> 01:00:35,552 and like (groan) like getting all made up and ready, 1505 01:00:35,552 --> 01:00:36,929 pumped up, ready to go, 1506 01:00:36,929 --> 01:00:38,389 and then it would be like the night at the gym and 1507 01:00:38,389 --> 01:00:40,391 in the morning the gym, and then ready for it. 1508 01:00:40,391 --> 01:00:43,394 And Quentin did that to me for about four or five days. 1509 01:00:43,394 --> 01:00:46,230 He finally, and he just like had me like a caged animal. 1510 01:00:46,230 --> 01:00:47,815 He was, of course, doing it on purpose. 1511 01:00:54,196 --> 01:00:55,739 And when I came out with that bat, 1512 01:00:55,739 --> 01:00:57,825 I was so, so ready. 1513 01:00:57,825 --> 01:01:00,285 And then I just started wailing on that dummy. 1514 01:01:00,285 --> 01:01:02,621 (grunts) I'm going completely crazy. 1515 01:01:02,621 --> 01:01:04,123 I mean I think I lost my voice 1516 01:01:04,123 --> 01:01:05,708 for a couple days after that. 1517 01:01:08,502 --> 01:01:10,963 I know that Quentin really wanted, 1518 01:01:10,963 --> 01:01:15,426 um, authentic, um, actors to be really German, 1519 01:01:15,426 --> 01:01:16,677 to be really French. 1520 01:01:16,677 --> 01:01:18,804 Um, he spent months and months and months in 1521 01:01:18,804 --> 01:01:20,556 Germany trying to find the right people, 1522 01:01:20,556 --> 01:01:23,434 especially for Christoph Waltz's character. 1523 01:01:28,647 --> 01:01:31,025 And I know that he had said himself, 1524 01:01:31,025 --> 01:01:32,860 that if he wouldn't have found Christoph, 1525 01:01:32,860 --> 01:01:34,945 he wouldn't have been able to make this film. 1526 01:01:44,663 --> 01:01:47,291 Quentin was very secretive about, 1527 01:01:47,291 --> 01:01:49,001 uh, Christoph's character. 1528 01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:51,253 Uh, even at the read-throughs we didn't 1529 01:01:51,253 --> 01:01:54,298 get to really see his performance. 1530 01:01:59,303 --> 01:02:00,846 In the theatre when Christoph comes in 1531 01:02:00,846 --> 01:02:03,724 and confronts Bridget, 1532 01:02:03,724 --> 01:02:05,893 we never rehearsed that scene, 1533 01:02:05,893 --> 01:02:08,562 so it was a complete surprise to me when 1534 01:02:08,562 --> 01:02:11,732 he started going crazy on the laugh and- and the way he 1535 01:02:11,732 --> 01:02:12,649 did that scene. 1536 01:02:17,154 --> 01:02:30,292 (laughs) And I think it kind of shows in my face. 1537 01:02:30,292 --> 01:02:32,127 Christoph just found this character. 1538 01:02:32,127 --> 01:02:35,839 He had a really specific idea of how he wanted to 1539 01:02:35,839 --> 01:02:39,551 play it and together with Quentin they just had this 1540 01:02:39,551 --> 01:02:43,222 great bond and it got bigger and bigger and bigger. 1541 01:02:43,222 --> 01:02:47,101 There is definitely an exuberance about the 1542 01:02:47,101 --> 01:02:49,353 medium that he spreads. 1543 01:02:49,353 --> 01:02:53,732 And there is no, no inoculation against this bug. 1544 01:02:53,732 --> 01:02:56,443 You get infected whether you want to or not. 1545 01:02:56,443 --> 01:02:59,863 (laughs) Well, I don't know whether you want to 1546 01:02:59,863 --> 01:03:02,116 or not, because that's part of the, 1547 01:03:02,116 --> 01:03:06,495 part of the infection that you do want to get infected. 1548 01:03:06,495 --> 01:03:08,330 It's like going to a whore house to 1549 01:03:08,330 --> 01:03:10,916 get infected with the syphilis. 1550 01:03:10,916 --> 01:03:13,127 I've never been killed on film, 1551 01:03:13,127 --> 01:03:15,420 so as the day approached, I was getting more and more 1552 01:03:15,420 --> 01:03:17,089 nervous about it. 1553 01:03:17,089 --> 01:03:19,883 I'm in my trailer and Quentin comes in and he goes, 1554 01:03:19,883 --> 01:03:22,136 "Well, I don't really trust Christoph to 1555 01:03:22,136 --> 01:03:24,555 kill you, so I'm gonna do it myself." 1556 01:03:24,555 --> 01:03:26,557 And he was like, "Well, look at this. 1557 01:03:26,557 --> 01:03:30,936 They cut off SS sleeves that fit me and I'm gonna 1558 01:03:30,936 --> 01:03:33,730 put them on and then I'm just gonna be on top of 1559 01:03:33,730 --> 01:03:34,857 you and I'm gonna be strangling you, 1560 01:03:34,857 --> 01:03:37,109 and it's gonna be great." 1561 01:03:37,109 --> 01:03:38,068 I was like, " Oh, oh. 1562 01:03:38,068 --> 01:03:38,902 Yeah, that's great. 1563 01:03:38,902 --> 01:03:39,570 Sure. 1564 01:03:39,570 --> 01:03:40,404 Fair enough. 1565 01:03:40,404 --> 01:03:40,821 Why not?" 1566 01:03:40,821 --> 01:03:43,115 And- and now I'm really panicking. 1567 01:03:43,115 --> 01:03:46,160 And so we know we do the stunt and like I'm finally 1568 01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:49,413 on the ground and I just have this to the end of 1569 01:03:49,413 --> 01:03:52,958 my life vision of Quentin, who by all means is three 1570 01:03:52,958 --> 01:03:56,712 times Christoph's size and his hands are three times 1571 01:03:56,712 --> 01:03:59,131 Christoph's hands on top of me, 1572 01:03:59,131 --> 01:04:01,633 you know, with put-on sleeves that are three 1573 01:04:01,633 --> 01:04:04,303 sizes too small for him strangling me. 1574 01:04:04,303 --> 01:04:07,473 And I was just like, well, at least if I die, 1575 01:04:07,473 --> 01:04:09,892 it's Quentin Tarantino who killed me today. 1576 01:04:09,892 --> 01:04:10,893 Ooh! 1577 01:04:10,893 --> 01:04:17,649 (gasps) I guess he really gets in there. 1578 01:04:17,649 --> 01:04:19,109 Quentin is very hands-on. 1579 01:04:19,109 --> 01:04:20,569 He sits next to camera. 1580 01:04:20,569 --> 01:04:22,905 Usually directors sit at video village, 1581 01:04:22,905 --> 01:04:24,406 sometimes in a different room. 1582 01:04:24,406 --> 01:04:26,575 You feel like he's involved, 1583 01:04:26,575 --> 01:04:29,119 he's there, he's kind of holding your hand a little bit. 1584 01:04:29,119 --> 01:04:33,123 At the end of the day, you feel like he sees everything. 1585 01:04:33,123 --> 01:04:35,834 He laughs when there's like a joke in the scene. 1586 01:04:35,834 --> 01:04:37,961 He's always like-- Sometimes you have to cut 1587 01:04:37,961 --> 01:04:39,421 because we can hear Quentin laughing. 1588 01:04:39,421 --> 01:04:40,839 It's- It's pretty great. 1589 01:04:43,008 --> 01:04:45,177 (laughs) Hi, Sally. 1590 01:04:45,177 --> 01:04:46,803 (laughs) Any time you get a take and he likes it, 1591 01:04:46,803 --> 01:04:49,306 he's like, "All right, another one to shout to Sally. 1592 01:04:49,306 --> 01:04:53,769 (laughs) Hi, Sally. (chuckles) 1593 01:04:53,769 --> 01:04:56,438 He called me right after he met Sally Menke 1594 01:04:56,438 --> 01:04:58,690 and he said, I've met this gal. 1595 01:04:58,690 --> 01:05:01,944 I think we're gonna work on all our movies together. 1596 01:05:01,944 --> 01:05:04,780 Look into the camera and tell my lonely editor 1597 01:05:04,780 --> 01:05:06,531 stuck in Los Angeles 1598 01:05:06,531 --> 01:05:08,659 that's in her room all by herself, hello. 1599 01:05:08,659 --> 01:05:09,993 Her name is Sally. 1600 01:05:09,993 --> 01:05:12,162 Hello, Sally. 1601 01:05:12,162 --> 01:05:13,413 And welcome to happy first day. 1602 01:05:13,413 --> 01:05:14,748 And happy first day! 1603 01:05:14,748 --> 01:05:17,584 Now all together, go. 1604 01:05:17,584 --> 01:05:21,296 Hello, Sally and happy first day! 1605 01:05:21,296 --> 01:05:22,881 Sally Menke, unfortunately, 1606 01:05:22,881 --> 01:05:25,217 is not with us anymore. 1607 01:05:25,217 --> 01:05:28,428 But she was Quentin's major contributing editor 1608 01:05:28,428 --> 01:05:31,265 for all of his movies for a while there. 1609 01:05:31,265 --> 01:05:38,522 She is my only true genuine collaborator 1610 01:05:38,522 --> 01:05:42,734 from beginning to end and that's the way it is. 1611 01:05:42,734 --> 01:05:44,194 They just knew each other so well, 1612 01:05:44,194 --> 01:05:46,571 it felt like kind of their unspoken language. 1613 01:05:46,571 --> 01:05:49,283 She was one of those women that could be like, 1614 01:05:49,283 --> 01:05:50,617 "You're being self-indulgent." 1615 01:05:50,617 --> 01:05:53,370 And he'd be like, "Fine!" 1616 01:05:53,370 --> 01:05:58,208 I think he could hear Sally's voice when he's shooting. 1617 01:05:58,208 --> 01:06:00,502 And so tonight I want to thank my co-writer, 1618 01:06:00,502 --> 01:06:03,463 Sally Menke. 1619 01:06:03,463 --> 01:06:06,758 She was his cheerleader 1620 01:06:06,758 --> 01:06:09,052 and his editor all rolled into one. 1621 01:06:09,052 --> 01:06:10,178 Hi, Sally. 1622 01:06:12,097 --> 01:06:12,931 Hi, Sally. 1623 01:06:13,390 --> 01:06:14,683 Hi, Sally. 1624 01:06:14,683 --> 01:06:15,392 Cut! 1625 01:06:15,392 --> 01:06:17,477 The Basterds will be waiting from you. 1626 01:06:17,477 --> 01:06:19,104 (to self/Sally) Fucking, fucky, fuck. 1627 01:06:19,104 --> 01:06:20,105 So, close. 1628 01:06:20,105 --> 01:06:21,857 Hello, Sally. So close. 1629 01:06:38,332 --> 01:06:42,419 The resonance of his cinema is to push you 1630 01:06:42,419 --> 01:06:45,130 with every tool at his disposal and he's a master 1631 01:06:45,130 --> 01:06:46,757 at most of those tools. 1632 01:06:46,757 --> 01:06:49,509 I remember that ending watching it and my parents, 1633 01:06:49,509 --> 01:06:50,719 my parents were crying. 1634 01:06:50,719 --> 01:06:51,970 It was just this incredible, 1635 01:06:51,970 --> 01:06:53,430 incredible moment. 1636 01:06:53,430 --> 01:06:59,686 I get to be the Jew that shot Hitler. 1637 01:06:59,686 --> 01:07:00,479 It's the greatest. 1638 01:07:00,479 --> 01:07:02,064 Everywhere I go, people recognize me for 1639 01:07:02,064 --> 01:07:03,899 The Bear Jew, every country. 1640 01:07:03,899 --> 01:07:04,691 It's incredible. 1641 01:07:04,691 --> 01:07:09,863 I think the people who think that 1642 01:07:09,863 --> 01:07:12,449 Inglourious Basterds goes off the rails when Hitler 1643 01:07:12,449 --> 01:07:16,953 dies misses that we all are watching the movie and 1644 01:07:16,953 --> 01:07:18,705 we all know we're watching a movie. 1645 01:07:18,705 --> 01:07:19,915 He didn't change history, 1646 01:07:19,915 --> 01:07:25,003 nor does he ever claim to do that. 1647 01:07:25,003 --> 01:07:29,758 But he's doing exactly the- the- the 1648 01:07:29,758 --> 01:07:39,226 quintessential task of what storytelling is all about. 1649 01:07:39,226 --> 01:07:40,977 What if? 1650 01:07:40,977 --> 01:07:44,564 I've never had the desire to be part of repeating my 1651 01:07:44,564 --> 01:07:46,817 country's history over and over and over, 1652 01:07:46,817 --> 01:07:49,069 so the set seemed really refreshing. 1653 01:07:49,069 --> 01:07:51,988 (laughs) And, uh, only Quentin Tarantino gets 1654 01:07:51,988 --> 01:07:54,032 away with stuff like that. 1655 01:07:54,032 --> 01:07:55,784 I mean, what a ballsy movie to make. 1656 01:07:55,784 --> 01:07:58,620 That guy makes a movie, that's a movie called 1657 01:07:58,620 --> 01:08:00,205 Inglourious Basterds where the bastards aren't really 1658 01:08:00,205 --> 01:08:02,290 in it that much, a war movie where there's almost 1659 01:08:02,290 --> 01:08:05,627 no war, and it's two-thirds in a foreign language. 1660 01:08:05,627 --> 01:08:07,838 It's just like, how do you do that? 1661 01:08:07,838 --> 01:08:09,214 How do you have the confidence and the balls 1662 01:08:09,214 --> 01:08:12,217 to do that coming off of what was the biggest 1663 01:08:12,217 --> 01:08:13,927 commercial failure of your career? 1664 01:08:13,927 --> 01:08:15,137 I'm alive. 1665 01:08:15,137 --> 01:08:17,973 (speaks German) He's like, I'm gonna do something 1666 01:08:17,973 --> 01:08:19,224 bold and brave and different. 1667 01:08:19,224 --> 01:08:20,684 Then he does it again with Django. 1668 01:08:20,684 --> 01:08:22,227 And everyone's still doubting him. 1669 01:08:22,227 --> 01:08:23,979 How can you do a slavery movie at Christmas? 1670 01:08:23,979 --> 01:08:25,021 And he said, watch this. 1671 01:08:25,021 --> 01:08:26,398 It's his biggest movie ever. 1672 01:08:40,078 --> 01:08:40,704 Everyone is standing 1673 01:08:40,704 --> 01:08:42,539 in the Quentin Tarantino line to work. 1674 01:08:42,539 --> 01:08:43,707 I don't care who they are. 1675 01:08:43,707 --> 01:08:46,168 I don't care how big your star shines 1676 01:08:46,168 --> 01:08:47,753 and what you do at the box office. 1677 01:08:47,753 --> 01:08:52,466 You are still Quentin Tarantino deprived 1678 01:08:52,466 --> 01:08:54,092 if you haven't gotten a chance to work with him. 1679 01:08:54,092 --> 01:08:57,262 (indistinct) . ..your black ass. 1680 01:08:57,262 --> 01:09:01,433 (laughs) I get a chance to meet Quentin Tarantino. 1681 01:09:02,559 --> 01:09:04,019 Hey, white boy. 1682 01:09:04,019 --> 01:09:06,646 I said, hey, white boy. 1683 01:09:06,646 --> 01:09:07,814 Shut up, black. 1684 01:09:07,814 --> 01:09:09,524 You ain't got nothing' to say I want to hear. 1685 01:09:09,524 --> 01:09:17,449 You make unknowns, celebrities, stars. 1686 01:09:17,449 --> 01:09:20,243 But you turn stars into legends. 1687 01:09:20,243 --> 01:09:26,708 I said, I know the dude needs to be able 1688 01:09:26,708 --> 01:09:27,417 to ride his horse. 1689 01:09:27,417 --> 01:09:28,752 I got my own horse at the crib. 1690 01:09:28,752 --> 01:09:29,628 It'll be cool. 1691 01:09:29,628 --> 01:09:32,964 And not only did he allow me to take on the character, 1692 01:09:32,964 --> 01:09:34,424 but I got a chance to ride my own 1693 01:09:34,424 --> 01:09:36,134 horse in the film. 1694 01:09:36,134 --> 01:09:38,011 My valet, Django. 1695 01:09:38,011 --> 01:09:41,056 These are our horses, Tony and Fritz. 1696 01:09:41,056 --> 01:09:44,684 We had Bruce there, 1697 01:09:44,684 --> 01:09:47,354 Bruce Dern, who's done every western that's 1698 01:09:47,354 --> 01:09:49,022 ever been made for television, 1699 01:09:49,022 --> 01:09:51,483 played every bad guy you could imagine. 1700 01:09:51,483 --> 01:09:55,695 Django, Django, you got sin, 1701 01:09:55,695 --> 01:09:57,572 Django. 1702 01:09:57,572 --> 01:10:00,242 The boy's got sin. 1703 01:10:00,242 --> 01:10:02,494 When you've watched this man for however many year, what, 1704 01:10:02,494 --> 01:10:05,872 thirty, forty, fifty years of his career, 1705 01:10:05,872 --> 01:10:06,831 and to step in. 1706 01:10:06,831 --> 01:10:08,750 And that's what you need, you know? 1707 01:10:08,750 --> 01:10:12,212 No political correctness. 1708 01:10:12,212 --> 01:10:15,340 No softening the blows. 1709 01:10:15,340 --> 01:10:17,551 I want you to burn a runaway "R" right here on 1710 01:10:17,551 --> 01:10:20,595 his cheek, and the girl, too. 1711 01:10:20,595 --> 01:10:23,765 (gasps) Getting into the role and working with Quentin, 1712 01:10:23,765 --> 01:10:25,559 Quentin was, especially in the beginning 1713 01:10:25,559 --> 01:10:26,685 because he didn't know me. 1714 01:10:26,685 --> 01:10:27,853 You know, he knew Samuel. 1715 01:10:27,853 --> 01:10:28,770 He knew Christoph. 1716 01:10:28,770 --> 01:10:30,355 And so he was like, "Listen. 1717 01:10:30,355 --> 01:10:32,065 You know, we really got to put the work in." 1718 01:10:32,065 --> 01:10:34,067 And so I would come in and I was doing my lines 1719 01:10:34,067 --> 01:10:36,027 really sort of Jim Brownish, 1720 01:10:36,027 --> 01:10:38,029 like, you know, like I was already the guy. 1721 01:10:38,029 --> 01:10:39,239 And I remember him going, "Uh, 1722 01:10:39,239 --> 01:10:40,031 let's take a break." 1723 01:10:40,031 --> 01:10:40,657 He takes me in the room. 1724 01:10:40,657 --> 01:10:41,783 He says, "Hey, listen. 1725 01:10:41,783 --> 01:10:42,659 Listen. 1726 01:10:42,659 --> 01:10:44,035 You- you- you got to be a slave." 1727 01:10:44,035 --> 01:10:44,828 I said, "What do you mean?" He said, 1728 01:10:44,828 --> 01:10:47,789 "You- you have to be a slave." 1729 01:10:47,789 --> 01:10:49,040 And I said, " I- I don't get it." 1730 01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:52,127 He says, "You're already too macho 1731 01:10:52,127 --> 01:10:54,087 and you're too in control." 1732 01:10:56,798 --> 01:10:59,259 The Louis bag and the Range Rover you're driving, 1733 01:10:59,259 --> 01:11:00,927 all of this, and so you have to come in and 1734 01:11:00,927 --> 01:11:03,013 strip that all the way, 'cause I don't want this 1735 01:11:03,013 --> 01:11:06,933 to be a mistake that if I hired someone who is like 1736 01:11:06,933 --> 01:11:09,352 yourself or some other person who's well known, 1737 01:11:09,352 --> 01:11:11,521 that you couldn't break away from your persona and 1738 01:11:11,521 --> 01:11:13,898 that's why I work with the people that I work with. 1739 01:11:16,401 --> 01:11:19,195 And so the next day, I left all that at the crib 1740 01:11:19,195 --> 01:11:24,993 and sunk into that- that type of person who was 1741 01:11:24,993 --> 01:11:28,705 strong on the inside, but afraid to allow it to come out 1742 01:11:28,705 --> 01:11:32,042 because you would be murdered. 1743 01:11:32,042 --> 01:11:34,461 Imagine if anyone here saw someone you love and you 1744 01:11:34,461 --> 01:11:38,840 can't say nothing 'cause they'll kill you both. 1745 01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:43,428 (sings) Broomhilda, come on and get on my horse. 1746 01:11:43,428 --> 01:11:49,434 Broomhilda (beatboxing...) That was powerful. 1747 01:11:49,434 --> 01:11:52,604 Even in the rehearsal, I had to do certain things 1748 01:11:52,604 --> 01:11:55,523 in order to get the fear out of my character 1749 01:11:55,523 --> 01:11:58,068 when it came to Sam because he came in like this. 1750 01:11:58,068 --> 01:12:00,070 He howls to everything. 1751 01:12:00,070 --> 01:12:02,280 I can literally say he's 1752 01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:04,783 probably the best actor I've worked with. 1753 01:12:04,783 --> 01:12:06,326 You scaring me. 1754 01:12:06,326 --> 01:12:09,120 (gasps) Why is it I'm scarin' you? 1755 01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:12,290 Because you're scary. 1756 01:12:12,290 --> 01:12:13,375 Oh, fuck. 1757 01:12:13,375 --> 01:12:15,460 Oh, fuck, it's incredible. 1758 01:12:15,460 --> 01:12:17,379 I told Quentin Stephen was gonna 1759 01:12:17,379 --> 01:12:18,463 have his fans. 1760 01:12:18,463 --> 01:12:21,549 (chuckles) Stephen could read, write, count, 1761 01:12:21,549 --> 01:12:22,676 do all those things, 1762 01:12:22,676 --> 01:12:23,635 and he had a disguise. 1763 01:12:23,635 --> 01:12:26,096 He disguised himself as a feeble old man 1764 01:12:26,096 --> 01:12:27,639 and he wasn't. 1765 01:12:27,639 --> 01:12:29,766 And he realized that inside the confines of 1766 01:12:29,766 --> 01:12:32,018 Candyland, he was king. 1767 01:12:32,018 --> 01:12:34,688 Even when Calvin was home, he was king. 1768 01:12:34,688 --> 01:12:36,606 He's gonna stay in the big house? 1769 01:12:36,606 --> 01:12:38,316 Stephen, he's a slaver. 1770 01:12:38,316 --> 01:12:39,317 It's different. 1771 01:12:39,317 --> 01:12:40,735 In the big house? 1772 01:12:40,735 --> 01:12:41,987 The character is the characters. 1773 01:12:41,987 --> 01:12:42,570 And that's why I... 1774 01:12:42,570 --> 01:12:43,196 ...think people love 1775 01:12:43,196 --> 01:12:44,239 his characters is that 1776 01:12:44,239 --> 01:12:45,782 they are honest, whether you like them, 1777 01:12:45,782 --> 01:12:47,200 whether you agree with them or disagree with them, 1778 01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:48,493 they are who they are. 1779 01:12:48,493 --> 01:12:49,703 The film has already sparked 1780 01:12:49,703 --> 01:12:53,039 controversy over its repeated use of the "N" word. 1781 01:12:53,039 --> 01:12:55,834 And now, Director, Spike Lee says he won't go to see it. 1782 01:12:55,834 --> 01:12:57,460 Spike, (chuckles) Spike Lee's, 1783 01:12:57,460 --> 01:12:59,087 you know and I respect Spike Lee, 1784 01:12:59,087 --> 01:13:02,006 you know, but Spike Lee's that guy. 1785 01:13:02,006 --> 01:13:06,511 You know, it's like Spike Lee is like the- 1786 01:13:06,511 --> 01:13:11,391 the old dude with the nice little house that has the grass. 1787 01:13:11,391 --> 01:13:13,935 Don't you get on my grass, you little motherfuckers. 1788 01:13:16,271 --> 01:13:19,399 That's my grass, every blade of it is. 1789 01:13:19,941 --> 01:13:21,818 Little motherfuckers. 1790 01:13:21,818 --> 01:13:22,777 You know. 1791 01:13:22,777 --> 01:13:24,070 You're not gonna get 1792 01:13:24,070 --> 01:13:25,864 Samuel Jackson to say 1793 01:13:25,864 --> 01:13:29,409 nigger, nigger, nigger if he feels he's demeaning anybody. 1794 01:13:29,409 --> 01:13:31,411 You know, I mean Samuel Jackson's gonna turn to 1795 01:13:31,411 --> 01:13:33,204 you and tell you where to go. 1796 01:13:33,204 --> 01:13:35,498 You take Twelve Years A Slave, 1797 01:13:35,498 --> 01:13:38,293 which is supposedly made by an "auteur", 1798 01:13:38,293 --> 01:13:41,546 so Steve McQueen's very different from Quentin. 1799 01:13:41,546 --> 01:13:45,300 So when you have a song that says nigger three 1800 01:13:45,300 --> 01:13:47,594 hundred times in it and nobody says shit. 1801 01:13:47,594 --> 01:13:48,636 (sings) Nigger run, 1802 01:13:48,636 --> 01:13:53,099 nigger flew, nigger tore his shirt in two Run, 1803 01:13:53,099 --> 01:13:55,435 run or the pattyroller will get you Run nigger 1804 01:13:55,435 --> 01:13:56,895 run Well you better get away 1805 01:13:56,895 --> 01:13:59,564 So, it's okay for him to use it because 1806 01:13:59,564 --> 01:14:03,943 he's artistically attacking the system or the way people 1807 01:14:03,943 --> 01:14:05,612 think and feel in a way. 1808 01:14:05,612 --> 01:14:08,823 Then Quentin's just doing it to just scrape the 1809 01:14:08,823 --> 01:14:10,116 blackboard with his nails. 1810 01:14:10,116 --> 01:14:11,868 You know, and that's not true. 1811 01:14:11,868 --> 01:14:14,329 There is no dishonesty in anything that he writes 1812 01:14:14,329 --> 01:14:16,956 or how people talk, feel, or speak. 1813 01:14:16,956 --> 01:14:18,583 There you go! 1814 01:14:18,583 --> 01:14:20,585 The consumer, especially black consumers, 1815 01:14:20,585 --> 01:14:22,670 they understand that it's a movie. 1816 01:14:22,670 --> 01:14:25,590 Sometimes we get a little overboard with our 1817 01:14:25,590 --> 01:14:28,343 sensitivity level with- with everything, 1818 01:14:28,343 --> 01:14:30,678 because nobody was really payin' attention to that. 1819 01:14:30,678 --> 01:14:32,806 They were comin' to see their favorite director 1820 01:14:32,806 --> 01:14:35,391 direct some of their favorite stars. 1821 01:14:35,391 --> 01:14:37,977 If it's Quentin, if it's Samuel, 1822 01:14:37,977 --> 01:14:40,104 if it's Leo, it's Christoph, 1823 01:14:40,104 --> 01:14:42,524 Carry Washington, and myself, 1824 01:14:42,524 --> 01:14:46,069 I- I just find it hard for us to fuck that up. 1825 01:14:46,069 --> 01:14:48,029 All three are champions. 1826 01:14:49,030 --> 01:14:51,324 Samson's a champion. 1827 01:14:51,324 --> 01:14:52,784 Them other two pretty good. 1828 01:14:55,245 --> 01:14:56,830 Calvin-- You know we live in a very politically 1829 01:14:56,830 --> 01:14:59,582 correct society now to where almost everything, 1830 01:14:59,582 --> 01:15:01,501 it almost chokes art a little bit. 1831 01:15:03,253 --> 01:15:06,005 That's just the way it was. 1832 01:15:06,005 --> 01:15:07,882 What's your name, boy? 1833 01:15:07,882 --> 01:15:10,260 His name is Django Freeman. 1834 01:15:10,260 --> 01:15:12,220 His characters are a part of him. 1835 01:15:12,220 --> 01:15:13,263 It's how he creates. 1836 01:15:13,263 --> 01:15:14,973 But they're living breathing characters to him. 1837 01:15:14,973 --> 01:15:18,393 There's a great story that his mom told me about when 1838 01:15:18,393 --> 01:15:21,271 he was a little boy and he was playing with his GI Joes 1839 01:15:21,271 --> 01:15:22,814 and he was using foul language. 1840 01:15:22,814 --> 01:15:24,732 And I think it was like, you know, 1841 01:15:24,732 --> 01:15:25,942 "Fuck you. Die." 1842 01:15:25,942 --> 01:15:26,901 And you know, like, whatever. 1843 01:15:26,901 --> 01:15:28,486 And she came around the corner and she was like, 1844 01:15:28,486 --> 01:15:30,029 Quentin, don't you use that language. 1845 01:15:30,029 --> 01:15:31,364 And he said, "It's not me, Mom. 1846 01:15:31,364 --> 01:15:32,031 It's just the guys. 1847 01:15:32,031 --> 01:15:33,700 That's how they talk." 1848 01:15:35,451 --> 01:15:36,953 I count two guns, Nigger. 1849 01:15:40,957 --> 01:15:43,126 You said in seventy-six years on this plantation, 1850 01:15:43,126 --> 01:15:45,879 you've seen all manner of shit done to niggers, 1851 01:15:45,879 --> 01:15:47,505 but I notice... 1852 01:15:47,505 --> 01:15:48,798 you didn't mention kneecapping. 1853 01:15:48,798 --> 01:15:50,550 Oh, God! 1854 01:15:50,550 --> 01:15:52,010 Motherfucker! 1855 01:15:52,010 --> 01:15:55,263 Leonardo DiCaprio had a problem saying the word nigger. 1856 01:15:55,263 --> 01:15:56,055 "Pal. 1857 01:15:56,055 --> 01:15:57,390 (inhales) Pal, it's just. 1858 01:15:57,390 --> 01:15:59,934 (exhales) It's tough for me to say this." 1859 01:15:59,934 --> 01:16:01,895 And, uh, I remember Samuel Jackson going, 1860 01:16:01,895 --> 01:16:03,146 Get over it, motherfucker. 1861 01:16:03,146 --> 01:16:04,480 This is just another Tuesday, motherfucker. 1862 01:16:04,480 --> 01:16:06,024 I don't give a fuck about these motherfuckers. 1863 01:16:06,024 --> 01:16:07,650 Look at- look at who I am, motherfucker. 1864 01:16:07,650 --> 01:16:09,736 Fuck! And it was like... 1865 01:16:09,736 --> 01:16:11,029 You know, and I said, "Yeah." 1866 01:16:11,029 --> 01:16:12,655 I said, "Leo, Leo, we're- we're not friends." 1867 01:16:12,655 --> 01:16:14,198 I said, "This is just another Thursday. 1868 01:16:14,198 --> 01:16:16,451 This is your property. 1869 01:16:16,451 --> 01:16:17,535 These aren't humans. 1870 01:16:17,535 --> 01:16:18,870 These are your property." 1871 01:16:22,582 --> 01:16:24,042 And when Leo came in the next day, 1872 01:16:24,042 --> 01:16:25,668 it was literally like, I was like, "What's up, Leo? 1873 01:16:27,295 --> 01:16:28,254 What's up fam?" 1874 01:16:29,380 --> 01:16:30,381 He didn't speak. 1875 01:16:31,007 --> 01:16:32,383 You won't mind me handling this nigger 1876 01:16:32,383 --> 01:16:33,968 anyway I see fit. 1877 01:16:35,011 --> 01:16:36,554 He's your nigger. 1878 01:16:40,725 --> 01:16:44,771 Mr. Stonesipher, let Marshall and the bitches 1879 01:16:44,771 --> 01:16:47,565 send D'Artagnan to nigger heaven. 1880 01:16:47,565 --> 01:16:50,693 Quentin allowed us to transport back to that 1881 01:16:50,693 --> 01:16:53,988 time and it was- it was really real. It was intent. 1882 01:16:53,988 --> 01:16:58,743 Leonardo had that gigantic sequence where he becomes 1883 01:16:58,743 --> 01:17:01,746 wise to what Schultz and Django are up to. 1884 01:17:01,746 --> 01:17:05,750 He brought his hand down and smashed the glass. 1885 01:17:05,750 --> 01:17:09,837 So now blood is running down his hand. 1886 01:17:09,837 --> 01:17:12,465 He's kind of getting white. 1887 01:17:12,465 --> 01:17:13,883 Leo never breaks. 1888 01:17:13,883 --> 01:17:15,301 He goes all the way through 'cause he knows 1889 01:17:15,301 --> 01:17:16,427 it's a great take. 1890 01:17:16,427 --> 01:17:19,097 Where were we? 1891 01:17:19,097 --> 01:17:22,433 Quentin's right there, right at the lens next to him, 1892 01:17:22,433 --> 01:17:24,018 not in some video village. 1893 01:17:24,018 --> 01:17:25,395 In fact there are no monitors 1894 01:17:25,395 --> 01:17:28,231 on a Quentin Tarantino movie. There is no video village. 1895 01:17:28,231 --> 01:17:30,775 And you can see it in the performances. 1896 01:17:30,775 --> 01:17:35,488 Broomhilda here is my property and I can choose 1897 01:17:35,488 --> 01:17:39,784 to do with my property whatever I so desire. 1898 01:17:39,784 --> 01:17:41,661 After Leonardo finished, you know, 1899 01:17:41,661 --> 01:17:43,830 his fellow actors, his peers, 1900 01:17:43,830 --> 01:17:46,791 and the crew, basically, gave him a standing ovation. 1901 01:17:46,791 --> 01:17:48,793 And I think that it was the first time 1902 01:17:48,793 --> 01:17:51,879 that Leo had really been in that atmosphere, 1903 01:17:51,879 --> 01:17:54,132 that brotherhood, and that spirit of fun. 1904 01:17:54,132 --> 01:17:55,508 After a hundred rolls of film, 1905 01:17:55,508 --> 01:17:57,385 they, all of sudden, I'm- now I'm in chains, 1906 01:17:57,385 --> 01:17:59,470 like, all of a sudden they start playing music. 1907 01:17:59,470 --> 01:18:01,681 (sings) Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba... 1908 01:18:01,681 --> 01:18:02,807 (speaks) I was like, what's going on? 1909 01:18:02,807 --> 01:18:03,224 What's all this? 1910 01:18:03,224 --> 01:18:04,100 They start bringing out tequila. 1911 01:18:04,100 --> 01:18:05,852 I say, what? Oh, shit! 1912 01:18:05,852 --> 01:18:07,020 This is great. I said, what the fuck? 1913 01:18:07,020 --> 01:18:08,521 I said, what kind of set is this? 1914 01:18:08,521 --> 01:18:10,273 He says, "My kinda set, motherfucker." 1915 01:18:10,815 --> 01:18:11,816 Quentin had called 1916 01:18:11,816 --> 01:18:14,152 everybody in and- and- and we were waiting 1917 01:18:14,152 --> 01:18:17,947 for- for everybody to come in and we chatted and... 1918 01:18:17,947 --> 01:18:20,158 And then Quentin came and said, "Okay. 1919 01:18:20,158 --> 01:18:23,703 I thought about this for a long time and this morning 1920 01:18:23,703 --> 01:18:26,372 at three o'clock I came to the conclusion, 1921 01:18:26,372 --> 01:18:29,667 now this is what's going to happen." 1922 01:18:29,667 --> 01:18:31,961 And then he acted out that whole scene, 1923 01:18:31,961 --> 01:18:35,590 this big battle inside. 1924 01:18:37,842 --> 01:18:40,303 And then Quentin said, "Well, 1925 01:18:40,303 --> 01:18:42,013 I thought about ending the movie here, 1926 01:18:42,013 --> 01:18:44,515 but then this happens." 1927 01:18:44,515 --> 01:18:46,601 And he threw himself on the floor. 1928 01:18:46,601 --> 01:18:48,353 And he jumped up and threw his gun. 1929 01:18:48,353 --> 01:18:51,856 You know, I- I think he had like fifteen and shot 1930 01:18:51,856 --> 01:18:55,610 and- and really acted out the whole scene. 1931 01:18:55,610 --> 01:18:57,320 Bob Richardson was sitting there, 1932 01:18:59,030 --> 01:19:03,493 you know, trying to control his- his blood pressure. 1933 01:19:03,493 --> 01:19:07,080 And the- and the- the- the stunt coordinator, 1934 01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:10,500 who is about seven feet tall and five feet wide 1935 01:19:10,500 --> 01:19:14,045 was leaning against the wall like that. 1936 01:19:14,045 --> 01:19:17,882 (chuckles) And the- and the special effects guy 1937 01:19:17,882 --> 01:19:19,050 started to cry. 1938 01:19:19,050 --> 01:19:28,893 That main hall was literally destroyed 1939 01:19:28,893 --> 01:19:34,232 and the blood was squirted up to the second story. 1940 01:19:34,232 --> 01:19:36,275 Blood up to the gallery of that, 1941 01:19:36,275 --> 01:19:38,319 literally everywhere. 1942 01:19:38,319 --> 01:19:39,070 Ow! 1943 01:19:39,070 --> 01:19:39,487 God! 1944 01:19:39,487 --> 01:19:41,072 The furniture, the interior, 1945 01:19:41,072 --> 01:19:45,201 everything thrashed to the size of toothpicks. 1946 01:19:45,201 --> 01:19:48,579 And you want to tell me that's a true story? 1947 01:19:48,579 --> 01:19:50,998 True is what happened on the set. 1948 01:19:50,998 --> 01:19:54,919 True is what happens on the screen. 1949 01:19:54,919 --> 01:19:57,755 But the violence? No. 1950 01:19:58,714 --> 01:20:00,591 The violence is opera. 1951 01:20:02,009 --> 01:20:04,762 Django...! 1952 01:20:05,179 --> 01:20:07,473 You (indistinct) son of a... 1953 01:20:07,473 --> 01:20:09,767 Django's not trying to cure slavery. 1954 01:20:10,852 --> 01:20:12,645 He just wants to take out the people that did him 1955 01:20:12,645 --> 01:20:13,980 bad and get with his girl. 1956 01:20:16,941 --> 01:20:18,401 This is a love story. 1957 01:20:21,571 --> 01:20:23,364 Django is the- is the super hero. 1958 01:20:23,364 --> 01:20:25,575 He's the guy who rides off into the sunset. 1959 01:20:25,575 --> 01:20:28,035 And you don't see a lot of black characters that do that. 1960 01:20:28,035 --> 01:20:29,996 You don't see in Hollywood when a black character's 1961 01:20:29,996 --> 01:20:33,583 in that type of setting of slavery does what he does, 1962 01:20:33,583 --> 01:20:35,835 kills the bad white folks, gets his girl, 1963 01:20:35,835 --> 01:20:37,461 and rides off into the sunset. 1964 01:20:54,812 --> 01:20:56,022 It's about eight people trapped 1965 01:20:56,022 --> 01:20:57,940 in a blizzard in a haberdashery 1966 01:20:57,940 --> 01:20:59,525 in the middle of nowhere. 1967 01:20:59,525 --> 01:21:02,862 It's a mixture of western, who-done-it, 1968 01:21:02,862 --> 01:21:05,156 revenge movie. It's all those things. 1969 01:21:05,156 --> 01:21:06,407 Want to make a deal? 1970 01:21:06,407 --> 01:21:07,116 Huh? 1971 01:21:07,116 --> 01:21:09,368 The deal still stands, Chris. 1972 01:21:09,368 --> 01:21:11,871 You ain't got nothing we can't forgive. 1973 01:21:11,871 --> 01:21:13,998 The Hateful Eight is kind of almost like a- a 1974 01:21:13,998 --> 01:21:16,500 bookend of Reservoir Dogs. 1975 01:21:16,500 --> 01:21:18,169 It'd just be more bullshit. 1976 01:21:20,796 --> 01:21:22,215 This man set us up. 1977 01:21:22,215 --> 01:21:25,009 He creates an initial scenario, 1978 01:21:25,009 --> 01:21:26,844 an initial group of people, 1979 01:21:28,429 --> 01:21:30,431 and he throws them together 1980 01:21:30,431 --> 01:21:31,807 often in one room. 1981 01:21:31,807 --> 01:21:36,854 And then he explores what might happen by putting 1982 01:21:36,854 --> 01:21:39,732 this group of people in the same room, 1983 01:21:39,732 --> 01:21:42,235 like Reservoir Dogs or The Hateful Eight. 1984 01:21:42,235 --> 01:21:43,778 It's a complete ensemble piece, 1985 01:21:43,778 --> 01:21:47,365 which is pretty incredible because you've got eight people 1986 01:21:47,365 --> 01:21:50,993 in there talking to each other about some very specific, 1987 01:21:50,993 --> 01:21:55,164 interesting, and sometimes very hateful things. 1988 01:21:55,164 --> 01:22:01,671 (spits) (grunts) What the- (groans) (groans) 1989 01:22:01,671 --> 01:22:05,049 He lets the characters be infused 1990 01:22:05,049 --> 01:22:07,718 by the actors that he chooses to portray them. 1991 01:22:08,928 --> 01:22:11,013 He played me a piece of music and then he said, 1992 01:22:11,013 --> 01:22:13,057 "I think it would be nice if Daisy played the guitar 1993 01:22:13,057 --> 01:22:14,809 and sang this song." 1994 01:22:14,809 --> 01:22:16,477 It really focused me 1995 01:22:16,477 --> 01:22:18,813 because I had to practice that fucking instrument 1996 01:22:18,813 --> 01:22:22,066 everyday whenever I was not on camera. 1997 01:22:22,066 --> 01:22:25,778 (sings) I'll kill you bastards one and all I'll 1998 01:22:25,778 --> 01:22:29,490 gun the floggers down It was ama-I had never played 1999 01:22:29,490 --> 01:22:31,367 guitar in my life. 2000 01:22:31,367 --> 01:22:36,038 (sings) And you'll be dead Behind me John 2001 01:22:36,038 --> 01:22:40,543 When I get to Mexico. 2002 01:22:40,543 --> 01:22:42,086 He wanted it to come from the inside. 2003 01:22:42,086 --> 01:22:43,629 And when you are singing a song to yourself, 2004 01:22:43,629 --> 01:22:46,465 you're immediately going inward. 2005 01:22:46,465 --> 01:22:48,175 Give me that guitar. 2006 01:22:48,175 --> 01:22:50,678 I think he has a way of getting into each 2007 01:22:50,678 --> 01:22:54,557 character and letting them breathe 2008 01:22:54,557 --> 01:22:56,142 and create their life. 2009 01:22:56,142 --> 01:22:59,979 (laughs) He gave me the script. 2010 01:22:59,979 --> 01:23:03,524 He goes, "Here. You're Joe Gage." 2011 01:23:03,524 --> 01:23:05,901 A bastards work is never done, 2012 01:23:05,901 --> 01:23:08,237 huh, John Ruth? 2013 01:23:08,237 --> 01:23:10,114 That's right, Joe Gage. 2014 01:23:10,114 --> 01:23:13,159 And I said, "Thanks for thinking of me." 2015 01:23:13,159 --> 01:23:17,079 And he goes, "Michael, you were there at the beginning, 2016 01:23:17,079 --> 01:23:21,167 and by God you're gonna be here now, you know." 2017 01:23:28,341 --> 01:23:30,259 I find him to be the same man, 2018 01:23:31,385 --> 01:23:35,264 but just with a lot more of a pack. 2019 01:23:35,264 --> 01:23:38,142 He's more of a package than he was, you know. 2020 01:23:38,142 --> 01:23:39,477 He pays attention. 2021 01:23:40,561 --> 01:23:44,857 He also became much more sophisticated as a filmmaker. 2022 01:23:44,857 --> 01:23:48,069 His mastery of blocking and his mastery of camera 2023 01:23:48,069 --> 01:23:51,614 movement and that choreography is really 2024 01:23:51,614 --> 01:23:55,451 pronounced and you can really see his growth. 2025 01:23:55,451 --> 01:23:58,162 Also, you are seeing his maturity as a human being. 2026 01:23:58,162 --> 01:24:00,081 He may look at the same things, 2027 01:24:00,081 --> 01:24:03,000 but through the lens of where he sits right now. 2028 01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:06,379 Who said it that, uh, Kurt Russell's character was 2029 01:24:06,379 --> 01:24:08,172 based on, yeah. 2030 01:24:08,172 --> 01:24:10,424 I think John Ruth was a lot nicer guy that 2031 01:24:10,424 --> 01:24:11,634 Harvey Weinstein. 2032 01:24:11,634 --> 01:24:12,760 If Kurt was supposed to be Harvey, 2033 01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:15,513 then that must have been Harvey's good side. 2034 01:24:15,513 --> 01:24:17,098 You ruin that letter of his, 2035 01:24:17,098 --> 01:24:19,183 that nigger's gonna stomp your ass to death. 2036 01:24:19,183 --> 01:24:22,144 And when he do, I'm gonna sit back on that wagon 2037 01:24:22,144 --> 01:24:23,813 wheel, watch, and laugh. 2038 01:24:23,813 --> 01:24:26,190 (exhales) Yeah, if you read them on the page it 2039 01:24:26,190 --> 01:24:27,525 was a little more accurate. 2040 01:24:27,525 --> 01:24:29,652 Kurt's the most charming person on the planet. 2041 01:24:29,652 --> 01:24:33,447 When that sun comes out, I'm taking this woman into 2042 01:24:33,447 --> 01:24:35,783 Red Rock to hang. 2043 01:24:35,783 --> 01:24:38,911 The association of Quentin and Harvey 2044 01:24:38,911 --> 01:24:40,329 over twenty-five years, 2045 01:24:40,329 --> 01:24:42,206 it was a pretty good brotherhood. 2046 01:24:42,206 --> 01:24:44,542 It was a pretty good combination of Hollywood 2047 01:24:44,542 --> 01:24:48,254 power and of talent. 2048 01:24:48,254 --> 01:24:50,673 In the past, with the Weinstein Company, 2049 01:24:50,673 --> 01:24:53,801 whatever he said was- was the word of God. 2050 01:24:53,801 --> 01:24:55,970 These guys, there was a toll, 2051 01:24:57,555 --> 01:24:58,222 you know? 2052 01:24:58,222 --> 01:25:01,350 He earned, he made enough money for everybody. 2053 01:25:03,602 --> 01:25:04,186 We shot on seventy, 2054 01:25:04,186 --> 01:25:08,023 because he knew that if we went to the 2055 01:25:08,023 --> 01:25:09,775 expense of shooting on seventy, 2056 01:25:09,775 --> 01:25:11,819 they were gonna project it in seventy. 2057 01:25:11,819 --> 01:25:14,697 And it was the exhibition, which was as important 2058 01:25:14,697 --> 01:25:16,615 as the image capture. 2059 01:25:16,615 --> 01:25:20,870 Quentin cares about cinema and caring about cinema 2060 01:25:20,870 --> 01:25:22,872 means literally caring about cinema, 2061 01:25:22,872 --> 01:25:25,833 caring about film, the romance of cinema, 2062 01:25:25,833 --> 01:25:28,335 how it looks and feels, and for him, 2063 01:25:28,335 --> 01:25:31,088 he doesn't feel that digital technology 2064 01:25:31,088 --> 01:25:35,968 approximates the impact that that flicker has on us. 2065 01:25:35,968 --> 01:25:37,052 He just bought a theater. 2066 01:25:37,052 --> 01:25:38,929 He owns the new Beverly Cinema. 2067 01:25:38,929 --> 01:25:41,849 I've been going there recently introducing pictures. 2068 01:25:41,849 --> 01:25:43,559 I love the new Beverly. I was there last week. 2069 01:25:43,559 --> 01:25:44,685 We watched a print of Seven, 2070 01:25:44,685 --> 01:25:45,769 which had silver in it. 2071 01:25:45,769 --> 01:25:47,062 It was incredible. 2072 01:25:47,062 --> 01:25:47,813 It was so beautiful. 2073 01:25:47,813 --> 01:25:49,607 I mean Quentin leaned over to me and he's like, 2074 01:25:49,607 --> 01:25:50,691 "Take a good look. 2075 01:25:50,691 --> 01:25:51,942 You're never gonna see a finisher movie look 2076 01:25:51,942 --> 01:25:52,693 this good again. 2077 01:25:52,693 --> 01:25:55,279 (chuckles) It's like sad, but true. 2078 01:25:55,279 --> 01:25:56,822 He wrote it in the script, glorious seventy 2079 01:25:56,822 --> 01:26:00,659 millimeter about six times during the 2080 01:26:00,659 --> 01:26:01,452 first twenty pages. 2081 01:26:01,452 --> 01:26:03,537 And my jaw dropped when I saw that. 2082 01:26:03,537 --> 01:26:04,914 I was like, "You're kidding me, right? 2083 01:26:04,914 --> 01:26:06,373 You're gonna actually do this?" 2084 01:26:26,936 --> 01:26:29,355 Once he found this big, gorgeous, 2085 01:26:29,355 --> 01:26:31,899 beautiful seventy millimeter format, 2086 01:26:31,899 --> 01:26:35,986 he realized that there was an intimacy. 2087 01:26:35,986 --> 01:26:38,322 He'd shot a hundred close ups of Sam Jackson, 2088 01:26:38,322 --> 01:26:40,241 but he never shot a close up of Sam Jackson 2089 01:26:40,241 --> 01:26:41,909 that looked like that. 2090 01:26:41,909 --> 01:26:45,621 And you literally could get even deeper underneath 2091 01:26:45,621 --> 01:26:47,873 the skin and into the hearts and minds of these 2092 01:26:47,873 --> 01:26:51,335 characters and hold these big wide frames 2093 01:26:51,335 --> 01:26:54,922 so that you were almost in theater. 2094 01:26:54,922 --> 01:26:57,341 Everybody had to be on at every given moment in 2095 01:26:57,341 --> 01:27:00,344 those rooms all the time. 2096 01:27:00,344 --> 01:27:02,429 I don't know really that Quentin would have felt 2097 01:27:02,429 --> 01:27:05,140 all that comfortable doing the seventy millimeter thing 2098 01:27:05,140 --> 01:27:09,228 if Bob Richardson wasn't his partner doing it with him. 2099 01:27:09,228 --> 01:27:11,313 Bob brings so much to the table both 2100 01:27:11,313 --> 01:27:14,525 technically and creatively. 2101 01:27:14,525 --> 01:27:19,780 Quentin's exuberance and his enthusiasm for films 2102 01:27:19,780 --> 01:27:23,993 and filmmaking is so unbelievably vast. 2103 01:27:23,993 --> 01:27:27,496 And that's the way he was making Reservoir Dogs 2104 01:27:27,496 --> 01:27:29,665 and that's the way he is making The Hateful Eight, 2105 01:27:29,665 --> 01:27:33,502 and that spirit is contagious. 2106 01:27:34,795 --> 01:27:37,131 Quentin values friendship. 2107 01:27:37,131 --> 01:27:40,384 Quentin values deep relationships. 2108 01:27:40,384 --> 01:27:44,889 Quentin values a rag tag sort of family that is 2109 01:27:44,889 --> 01:27:47,725 more committed to each other than even actual blood. 2110 01:27:47,725 --> 01:27:49,810 And I think that you see that on our set. 2111 01:27:49,810 --> 01:27:52,104 (chuckles) That was a great one. 2112 01:27:52,104 --> 01:27:53,230 We have the same people. 2113 01:27:53,230 --> 01:27:55,357 Our script supervisor has been with Quentin since 2114 01:27:55,357 --> 01:27:56,400 Reservoir Dogs. 2115 01:27:56,400 --> 01:27:58,819 Our sound mixer, I think, has been with us since Pulp. 2116 01:27:58,819 --> 01:28:02,323 The makeup crew, stunts, everybody feels like 2117 01:28:02,323 --> 01:28:03,407 they're coming home. 2118 01:28:03,407 --> 01:28:04,658 It's that Quentin thing where you're suddenly 2119 01:28:04,658 --> 01:28:06,619 working around family and to see so many familiar 2120 01:28:06,619 --> 01:28:10,205 faces and that loyalty that Quentin has to his people, 2121 01:28:10,205 --> 01:28:11,624 his crew, and his cast. 2122 01:28:11,624 --> 01:28:13,083 There's music playing. 2123 01:28:13,083 --> 01:28:15,294 There's conversation. 2124 01:28:15,294 --> 01:28:16,128 There's laughter. 2125 01:28:16,128 --> 01:28:17,963 Quentin's like, "No cell phones on set. 2126 01:28:17,963 --> 01:28:18,756 Let's go to work." 2127 01:28:18,756 --> 01:28:21,425 And if you were caught with a cell phone, 2128 01:28:21,425 --> 01:28:23,135 you'd be fired, no matter who you are. 2129 01:28:23,135 --> 01:28:25,179 We called him Checkpoint Charlie where you had to 2130 01:28:25,179 --> 01:28:27,556 turn in your cell phone and he put it in a Ziploc 2131 01:28:27,556 --> 01:28:29,350 bag with your name on it, and there were absolutely 2132 01:28:29,350 --> 01:28:30,726 no cell phones allowed on set. 2133 01:28:30,726 --> 01:28:32,019 And so we talk to each other, 2134 01:28:32,019 --> 01:28:33,979 we dance, we sing, we laugh. 2135 01:28:33,979 --> 01:28:35,606 We talk about what we just did and 2136 01:28:35,606 --> 01:28:37,191 how we can make it better the next time. 2137 01:28:37,191 --> 01:28:39,401 Just like an extraordinary experience just being on 2138 01:28:39,401 --> 01:28:41,070 set when it's that down take. 2139 01:28:41,070 --> 01:28:43,030 He laughs openly during takes. 2140 01:28:43,030 --> 01:28:43,864 He cheers. 2141 01:28:43,864 --> 01:28:46,325 I imagine that he cuts himself out. 2142 01:28:46,325 --> 01:28:48,202 Douche Bag take one. 2143 01:28:48,202 --> 01:28:50,496 Twenty-eight prick, take two. 2144 01:28:50,496 --> 01:28:56,335 Humiliation, take one, mark. 2145 01:28:56,335 --> 01:28:58,754 (indistinct) Premiere take one. (indistinct) Premiere. 2146 01:28:58,754 --> 01:29:05,636 (laughs) His sets have become the most unique 2147 01:29:05,636 --> 01:29:07,596 set experience you can have. 2148 01:29:07,596 --> 01:29:09,390 What Quentin would say all the time, 2149 01:29:09,390 --> 01:29:15,896 "All right, we got this and we could move on, 2150 01:29:15,896 --> 01:29:17,690 but we're gonna do one more." 2151 01:29:17,690 --> 01:29:20,317 We're gonna do one more. 2152 01:29:20,317 --> 01:29:21,485 Why? 2153 01:29:21,944 --> 01:29:27,908 Because we love making movies. 2154 01:29:27,908 --> 01:29:29,994 I said, "Man, I'm- I'm- I'm on that train." 2155 01:29:30,828 --> 01:29:32,079 He's a fan. 2156 01:29:32,079 --> 01:29:34,498 You know he loves movies. 2157 01:29:34,498 --> 01:29:35,958 He appreciates people. 2158 01:29:35,958 --> 01:29:38,502 He's a fan of fans. 2159 01:29:38,502 --> 01:29:40,629 He appreciates life. 2160 01:29:40,629 --> 01:29:43,132 His way of socializing is inviting people over to 2161 01:29:43,132 --> 01:29:44,466 watch a movie. 2162 01:29:44,466 --> 01:29:46,385 He gets us all together. 2163 01:29:46,385 --> 01:29:48,429 He screens a movie of some sort. 2164 01:29:48,429 --> 01:29:49,805 Hey, everybody, come on and sit down. 2165 01:29:49,805 --> 01:29:51,432 Let's watch this. 2166 01:29:51,432 --> 01:29:52,933 And he'd go get some popcorn and sit there and 2167 01:29:52,933 --> 01:29:53,892 watch it with you. 2168 01:29:53,892 --> 01:29:56,520 It's a collective experience. 2169 01:29:57,146 --> 01:30:00,274 He was showing it to us for the first time. 2170 01:30:00,274 --> 01:30:02,025 We're just this group of, you know, 2171 01:30:02,025 --> 01:30:06,697 people and actors that he had chosen to use in his movie. 2172 01:30:06,697 --> 01:30:08,699 After the screening was over, 2173 01:30:08,699 --> 01:30:10,034 I couldn't help but notice. 2174 01:30:10,034 --> 01:30:14,830 He wasn't just sweating, he was- he was drenched. 2175 01:30:14,830 --> 01:30:19,543 And yet, I've never met anyone who honestly 2176 01:30:19,543 --> 01:30:22,963 comes even remotely close to the confidence he has when it 2177 01:30:22,963 --> 01:30:25,424 comes to making his movie. 2178 01:30:25,424 --> 01:30:27,676 It's amazing to me that he would have any nerves on 2179 01:30:27,676 --> 01:30:28,719 the other end at all. 2180 01:30:29,720 --> 01:30:32,097 But is shows, you know, how much he cares. 2181 01:30:39,229 --> 01:30:42,649 He was big and he was everywhere. 2182 01:30:48,572 --> 01:30:50,365 And everybody feared him. 2183 01:31:13,597 --> 01:31:15,015 Quentin and Harvey 2184 01:31:15,015 --> 01:31:16,767 Weinstein are two different animals. 2185 01:31:18,602 --> 01:31:19,019 I get it. 2186 01:31:19,019 --> 01:31:21,104 I understand why a lot of these girls 2187 01:31:21,104 --> 01:31:22,189 didn't say anything. 2188 01:31:23,273 --> 01:31:24,691 Their life depended on it. 2189 01:31:27,986 --> 01:31:31,490 If my livelihood, the preservation of my children, 2190 01:31:33,826 --> 01:31:35,869 if that is dependent upon someone 2191 01:31:35,869 --> 01:31:39,957 else that has power, like a Harvey Weinstein, 2192 01:31:39,957 --> 01:31:41,667 it's really scary. 2193 01:31:43,627 --> 01:31:47,548 That's the underbelly of the industry that 2194 01:31:47,548 --> 01:31:50,259 nobody knows about and it's really dark 2195 01:31:50,259 --> 01:31:52,261 and it's really fucked up. 2196 01:31:53,220 --> 01:31:54,763 I've been told things from a few people 2197 01:31:54,763 --> 01:31:56,348 who haven't even shown up yet. 2198 01:31:59,309 --> 01:32:01,144 I'll say exactly what Quentin said. 2199 01:32:01,144 --> 01:32:02,020 He simply said, "Listen. 2200 01:32:02,020 --> 01:32:03,981 I knew about it for a long time. 2201 01:32:05,274 --> 01:32:07,025 And I should have said something, but I didn't." 2202 01:32:10,445 --> 01:32:11,780 The fear factor 2203 01:32:11,780 --> 01:32:13,740 should never have entered into any of it. 2204 01:32:13,740 --> 01:32:15,617 And that's what I think the average person doesn't 2205 01:32:15,617 --> 01:32:19,371 understand, the fear and the emotional shutdown 2206 01:32:19,371 --> 01:32:24,084 that you'd have to force yourself into. 2207 01:32:24,084 --> 01:32:24,626 Oh, my God. 2208 01:32:24,626 --> 01:32:26,211 I can't believe what just happened. 2209 01:32:26,211 --> 01:32:28,213 And who am I gonna say anything to? 2210 01:32:28,213 --> 01:32:31,592 And if I do say something, I'm finished. 2211 01:32:31,592 --> 01:32:33,093 I won't be in another movie and 2212 01:32:33,093 --> 01:32:35,804 I won't be able to fulfill my life. 2213 01:32:35,804 --> 01:32:37,306 That's a pretty hard thing. 2214 01:32:49,860 --> 01:32:51,904 Now you find out about these hundreds of 2215 01:32:51,904 --> 01:32:54,531 thousands of dollars that was paid out to these 2216 01:32:54,531 --> 01:32:56,617 different girls in situations with him. 2217 01:32:57,784 --> 01:32:58,702 But see the people 2218 01:32:58,702 --> 01:33:00,203 who are complicit with that, 2219 01:33:00,203 --> 01:33:01,747 who followed his orders, 2220 01:33:01,747 --> 01:33:04,458 they're just as blameable and corrupted as- as him. 2221 01:33:04,917 --> 01:33:05,834 And a lot of that ain't 2222 01:33:05,834 --> 01:33:07,169 on the cover of Time Magazine. 2223 01:33:07,169 --> 01:33:08,295 They're still hiding. 2224 01:33:08,295 --> 01:33:10,714 There's a lot of them out there who were 2225 01:33:10,714 --> 01:33:12,549 more than happy to follow the 2226 01:33:12,549 --> 01:33:14,718 orders and the ideals of, 2227 01:33:14,718 --> 01:33:16,220 uh, Harvey's opinion. 2228 01:33:19,723 --> 01:33:21,558 And the fact that your own body, 2229 01:33:21,558 --> 01:33:25,854 your own face, your physical being is what you 2230 01:33:25,854 --> 01:33:28,023 use as your instrument of work, 2231 01:33:28,523 --> 01:33:30,442 and if that gets persecuted and that gets 2232 01:33:30,442 --> 01:33:32,110 ruined and that gets destroyed, 2233 01:33:32,110 --> 01:33:34,696 and somebody like Harvey has the power to do that, 2234 01:33:34,696 --> 01:33:35,781 don't hire that person. 2235 01:33:36,073 --> 01:33:37,157 And the people who would take 2236 01:33:37,157 --> 01:33:39,201 a call from a Harvey Weinstein, 2237 01:33:39,201 --> 01:33:40,410 "Oh, that was Harvey." 2238 01:33:40,410 --> 01:33:44,247 (smacks lips) "Yeah, he says not to hire so and so." 2239 01:33:50,003 --> 01:33:54,591 Having now separated himself so instantaneously 2240 01:33:54,591 --> 01:33:56,885 from Harvey, that was the end of it. 2241 01:34:10,399 --> 01:34:11,858 It's the end of an era. 2242 01:34:13,777 --> 01:34:15,612 It's an era that certainly made a point 2243 01:34:15,612 --> 01:34:19,074 and was envied by an awful lot of people. 2244 01:34:25,414 --> 01:34:26,623 He has moved on. 2245 01:34:30,794 --> 01:34:32,004 He's making a new movie. 2246 01:34:32,004 --> 01:34:33,630 He's doing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 2247 01:34:35,465 --> 01:34:36,216 And it ain't with the 2248 01:34:36,216 --> 01:34:37,217 Weinstein Company. 2249 01:34:37,884 --> 01:34:42,305 Quentin Tarantino is a rock star. 2250 01:34:43,932 --> 01:34:46,601 Quentin Tarantino can do a movie about any subject 2251 01:34:46,601 --> 01:34:49,062 matter that he wants to because Quentin Tarantino 2252 01:34:49,062 --> 01:34:51,273 stands out in front of the movie a little bit. 2253 01:34:56,153 --> 01:34:57,738 He's not gonna fade out. 2254 01:34:57,738 --> 01:34:59,781 This is why he talks about making ten. 2255 01:34:59,781 --> 01:35:02,659 He doesn't want to be that guy who people go, 2256 01:35:02,659 --> 01:35:04,202 "Oh, most of them was good, 2257 01:35:04,202 --> 01:35:06,747 but his stuff, you know as his stuff used to be, 2258 01:35:06,747 --> 01:35:08,957 but you know he's a bit too old for it now, 2259 01:35:08,957 --> 01:35:09,833 you know. 2260 01:35:09,833 --> 01:35:10,542 Bless him." 2261 01:35:10,542 --> 01:35:11,251 Doesn't want that. 2262 01:35:11,251 --> 01:35:12,335 I don't know, man. 2263 01:35:12,335 --> 01:35:15,005 I think he needs to live to a hundred and fifty or 2264 01:35:15,005 --> 01:35:17,841 two hundred years just so he can accomplish whatever 2265 01:35:17,841 --> 01:35:19,134 he wants to accomplish. 2266 01:35:19,134 --> 01:35:25,390 You know how his characters are related. 2267 01:35:25,390 --> 01:35:26,308 There's always a kind of a 2268 01:35:26,308 --> 01:35:28,477 family history that runs through. 2269 01:35:28,477 --> 01:35:29,269 I'm Doctor King Schultz. 2270 01:35:29,269 --> 01:35:30,729 This is my horse Fritz. 2271 01:35:31,646 --> 01:35:33,398 Full loads? Obviously. 2272 01:35:34,066 --> 01:35:38,820 Dandy Michaels, Joe Nash, and... 2273 01:35:38,820 --> 01:35:39,946 Crazy Craig Koons. 2274 01:35:41,281 --> 01:35:43,784 This here is Captain Koons. 2275 01:35:43,784 --> 01:35:46,661 He was in the POW camp with Daddy. 2276 01:35:46,661 --> 01:35:47,871 You know there's a family chain, 2277 01:35:47,871 --> 01:35:49,498 that there's a string that runs from the beginning 2278 01:35:49,498 --> 01:35:50,499 through to the end. 2279 01:35:52,459 --> 01:35:54,795 Hello, little man. 2280 01:35:54,795 --> 01:35:56,671 So I am in Hateful Eight, 2281 01:35:56,671 --> 01:35:59,883 the great- great grandfather of 2282 01:35:59,883 --> 01:36:02,010 Michael Fassbender's character 2283 01:36:02,010 --> 01:36:03,470 in Inglourious Basterds. 2284 01:36:03,470 --> 01:36:06,973 I'm watching Kill Bill, and there's Earl McGraw alive 2285 01:36:06,973 --> 01:36:09,726 as a character in it with his son, James Parks. 2286 01:36:09,726 --> 01:36:12,396 I said, "They got killed in From Dust Till Dawn One and Two." 2287 01:36:12,396 --> 01:36:14,314 He goes, "This happens before that." 2288 01:36:14,314 --> 01:36:15,357 I'm like, "Oh, God. 2289 01:36:15,357 --> 01:36:17,943 You- you like a gen-He's- he's- he reminds me of like 2290 01:36:17,943 --> 01:36:19,069 Norman Lear, you know, 2291 01:36:19,069 --> 01:36:21,446 how All In The Family begot The Jeffersons and 2292 01:36:21,446 --> 01:36:22,989 The Jeffersons begot the Good Times 2293 01:36:22,989 --> 01:36:24,324 and so on and so forth. 2294 01:36:24,324 --> 01:36:26,701 He was gonna make the Vega Brothers, 2295 01:36:26,701 --> 01:36:28,328 which would be me and John, 2296 01:36:28,328 --> 01:36:29,371 which would have been great, 2297 01:36:29,371 --> 01:36:30,205 right? 2298 01:36:30,205 --> 01:36:31,289 'Cause that would be believable, 2299 01:36:31,289 --> 01:36:31,915 right? 2300 01:36:31,915 --> 01:36:35,210 It would have to be a prequel because we're both dead, 2301 01:36:35,210 --> 01:36:36,920 which doesn't make sense, 2302 01:36:36,920 --> 01:36:38,755 but that's how it would be. 2303 01:36:38,755 --> 01:36:39,965 He's got his ten. 2304 01:36:39,965 --> 01:36:41,216 He'll do other stuff. 2305 01:36:41,216 --> 01:36:43,885 (stammers) And I know some of his plans and they're 2306 01:36:43,885 --> 01:36:44,928 fucking amazing. 2307 01:36:44,928 --> 01:36:46,972 You're writing your life story. 2308 01:36:46,972 --> 01:36:48,640 You bet I am. 2309 01:36:48,640 --> 01:36:50,058 Am I in it? 2310 01:36:50,058 --> 01:36:53,353 (chuckles) You just entered. 2311 01:36:53,353 --> 01:36:55,063 I mean, I wonder when he starts writing books 2312 01:36:55,063 --> 01:36:56,857 whether he will, some of these characters will 2313 01:36:56,857 --> 01:36:58,191 show up in his novels. 2314 01:36:59,860 --> 01:37:01,611 It's complete. It's a hundred percent. 2315 01:37:01,611 --> 01:37:04,823 And sacrificed relationship, 2316 01:37:04,823 --> 01:37:06,867 having children, all of that stuff to 2317 01:37:06,867 --> 01:37:08,869 pursue his dream. 2318 01:37:08,869 --> 01:37:11,413 He's a complete filmmaker and- and an artist in- in 2319 01:37:11,413 --> 01:37:12,622 the full on sense. 2320 01:37:13,832 --> 01:37:14,708 We're gonna miss it. 2321 01:37:14,708 --> 01:37:17,794 We're gonna miss the opportunity that he brings. 2322 01:37:17,794 --> 01:37:19,838 And it's true of all of us. 2323 01:37:19,838 --> 01:37:22,048 If your phone buzzes in your pocket 2324 01:37:22,048 --> 01:37:23,550 and you take it out of your pocket 2325 01:37:23,550 --> 01:37:24,551 and you look at it and it says 2326 01:37:24,551 --> 01:37:26,511 QT on it, you go please, please, 2327 01:37:26,511 --> 01:37:30,557 please, oh just please, please be one, please. 2328 01:37:30,557 --> 01:37:32,267 You know and (imitates phone on). 2329 01:37:32,267 --> 01:37:34,436 Hi. And he goes, "Hi. 2330 01:37:34,436 --> 01:37:35,979 Um, I've got something I want you to read." 2331 01:37:35,979 --> 01:37:37,272 And you're done. 174221

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