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Encoded by Dr. B
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Who do you know right
now that's dangerous?
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I got a friend and he and
I love to fuck shit up.
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There is no one like Quentin.
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There's Quentin.
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He makes a different
kind of movie.
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You're gonna land the
word nigger a hundred
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and ten times on Christmas?
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Quentin loves strong
female characters.
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Brilliant, hilarious,
and disturbing.
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From the mind of
Quentin Tarantino,
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he really is a powerhouse
of creativity.
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It's Quentin's World.
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It's his baby.
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He wrote it.
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He's a lightning rod.
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He's absolutely unique.
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He's the voice of
his generation.
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It's the end of
an era of Quentin
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and the Weinstein Company.
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He's not gonna fade out.
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This is why he talks
about making ten.
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Quentin is a champion
of the female.
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And he's just the build,
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but he gets the
opportunity to do this.
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And then there are the movies.
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Now, that's what he
says about himself,
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about how he sees the world,
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his very purpose of existence.
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Quentin's sort of a
natural born filmmaker.
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It's his passion.
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It's where he connects
with the full range of
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human feeling.
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And I think that you really
see the through line
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of his fascinations as
a human being running
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all the way through
what matters to him,
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looking at race in America...
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...looking at what is romance...
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...commitment...
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...honor...
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...betrayal,
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loyalty...
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...and people having to
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do the right thing.
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It's for sure the end of an era.
The Weinsteins
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have been the distributor of
every single film of
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...his in the United States.
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Eight movies, all of them,
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very successful.
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He surely is immortality.
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A friend of mine, he turned
me onto Quentin Tarantino,...
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...who was
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stuffing video boxes at
Imperial Entertainment.
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And we had this meeting
and he seemed like kind of
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an overzealous geek.
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Pardon, pardon me.
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But guess what?
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He had the talent to back it up.
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He would sleep on my couch.
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I don't think he had
a car at the time
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and flat broke.
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"I want to get in
the movie business.
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Do I think I can write?
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I'm gonna give it a stab,
'cause all it takes is
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a pen and paper."
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I asked him about
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writing on a computer.
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He said, "You can't
write on a computer."
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I'm like, "Why not?"
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He's like, "You can't write
poetry on a computer.
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He's like, "My pen is
my antennae to God.
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That's how I write.
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It just- it just flows.
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It's just a receiver."
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He has a red pen and a
black pen, felt tip,
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and yellow legal pad, and
dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit.
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That was it.
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Five minutes later,
he's got dialogue that would
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take some people an
entire lifetime to write.
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I think Quentin
basically writes novels
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and then when he's directing,
he's basically adapting
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his own novel to the screen.
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A lot of different
things are gonna happen.
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It's a roller coaster ride.
Oh, yeah, baby.
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You're gonna be horrified.
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(groans)
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You're gonna feel relief.
Then say something.
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Something.
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You're gonna feel romance.
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Quentin is above all a romantic.
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First script,
True Romance,
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Clarence saving Alabama is
the beginning of rescuing
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the princess that really
pays off in Django coming
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back to rescue Broomhilda.
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The first script of his I read
was Natural Born Killers.
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And when I read that I went,
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whoa, this guy's amazing.
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Then I read True Romance.
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I went, what the?
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What's going on.
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What's wrong with Hollywood?
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Where is everybody?
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You'd take home a slog of
twenty scripts a weekend
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and you're looking for
that thing that jumps off
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the page where the
characters are alive,
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where the dialogue
doesn't feel trite.
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Every kid wants to
give you a script
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and you- you- you with
the best intentions,
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you go, God, I
hope this is good.
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And then by page two
it's like turning like
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(groans)
oh, I can't turn the page.
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This is really just terrible.
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Not with Quentin.
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No way.
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Oh, they're brilliant
screenplays.
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Can you imagine having to
sell those to pay your rent?
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I mean, wow, you know.
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(inhales) I read a lot.
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(exhales)
Especially about things
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about history.
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I find that shit fascinating.
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Here's a fact.
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I don't know whether
you know or not.
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Well...
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Sicilians were
spawned by niggers.
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Uh, come again?
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(laughs)
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You look at the stuff
that Quentin writes.
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If it was on stage,
he'd have the Pulitzer.
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You know, because it's movies,
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everyone said, "Oh,
he was in a video store.
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He stole."
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Which of course launched
a thousand people working
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in video stores going,
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"Oh, I'm gonna be
the next Tarantino."
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Well, literally,
there's Quentin
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and there's everyone else.
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There's great stories,
great characters.
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Later on in the story...
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Clearly in True Romance,
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Clarence is a surrogate
for Quentin.
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You see his love of cinema
present in his voice
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as he expertly carries
you through his films.
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(overlapping) Oh! Ooh. You
have three kung-fu moves.
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In the original draft,
his version of True Romance,
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it was non-linear storytelling.
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The audience is
ahead of the characters
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and on the edge of their seat
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'cause they know
something bad's coming.
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And Tony Scott in his
adaptation made it linear,
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and Quentin loves True Romance,
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but Clarence died in
Quentin's version.
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Sweetie! (sobs)
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He had sold True Romance.
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He was hoping to direct it.
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Baby!
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He wasn't gonna be able to.
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He couldn't get anywhere
with Natural Born Killers.
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Um, he couldn't get that
going to direct, also.
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And he wrote Reservoir
Dogs so that it would be
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set in one contained place,
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so that no matter what happened,
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he was gonna direct this movie
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with the twenty thousand
dollars he had made on
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Golden Girls residuals for
being an Elvis impersonator.
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(sings) I do love you
with all my heart.
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I read a script of
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Reservoir Dogs and I just
hoped that the writer
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who said he was going
to be the director
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was really a director.
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I introduced him to my
friend Lawrence Bender,
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and Lawrence got Reservoir
Dogs all up and running.
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And Lawrence said,
"Give me a month.
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I know somebody who
knows Harvey Keitel."
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And Harvey said yes.
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I was pumping gas, man.
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I was driving a tow truck and,
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uh, I had done Thelma and Louise
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and I had done
some episodic TV.
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And I got that
thing and, you know,
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I- I- I'd never read
anything like it in my life.
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These guys and they're
named after colors.
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Mr. Brown, Mr. White,
Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue,
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Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink.
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Why am I Mr. Pink?
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And I remember my agent,
she was saying,
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"Well, you know, they all kill
each other at the end and,
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(clicks tongue) you know,
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there's no money
and, uh, you know,
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nobody's ever heard of
this Quentin guy and...
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You have no way of knowing
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with a first time director
whether they can direct or not.
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You never know.
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But Quentin, even then,
prior to making any film,
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knew every actor's resume.
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This guy was in this.
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I want this guy from this,
and this Lawrence Tierney
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was in Dillinger and I want him.
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He just set about putting
together the ensemble
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and it came out exactly
the way he wanted it.
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I don't know why he had me
stuck in his head to play
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Mr. Blonde, 'cause I didn't
want to play Mr. Blonde.
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I didn't want to get shot
by Tim Roth, you know.
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I don't want to be
killed by Tim Roth.
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I was like, hey, man,
"Who's Tim Roth?"
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I went along and met with him
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and- and Harvey Keitel.
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And they wanted me to read
and I wouldn't read for it.
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I'm very bad at auditioning.
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I got to memorize all of this?
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There's over four fuckin'
pages of this shit.
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And they pushed, you know,
they were pushing me.
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And so, me and Quentin
went and got some food
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and then some beer, and then
we went down to a pub near me
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and we got more beer.
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And we read every
character in the script
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I don't know how many times.
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I'd let Harvey Keitel kill me,
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but I don't, I'm not getting
killed by Tim Roth.
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I was on the floor in
a disproportionate
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amount of blood to
what you can actually
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contain in a human body.
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At the end of the day, one day,
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we- we- we hugged each other.
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And, you know, we're
both covered with blood,
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but it's- it's syrup,
basically.
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It's- it's fake.
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It's stage blood and
so when it starts to dry
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a little bit it
gets extremely sticky.
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And we were hugging
each other, like,
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you know, doing
the big guy hug thing
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and we- we couldn't get apart.
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We were stuck together.
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(laughs)
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And the wardrobe people
were convinced that
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if we forcefully separated
that it would tear
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the clothes apart,
and they didn't have
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a lot of budget for wardrobe.
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In fact, that was my suit.
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He told us to come to work in
a black suit with white shirts.
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They gave us the ties.
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That was about it.
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And if you watch the movie,
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Steve Buscemi
has black jeans on.
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Those aren't- aren't-
aren't suit pants.
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They're black jeans, man.
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And my suit, the
jacket or the pants,
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don't go together.
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They're from two
different suits.
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When I see the movie,
that's all I remember is
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my pants were too tight, man.
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They were making me crazy.
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And I didn't have black shoes.
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He wanted everyone
to have black shoes.
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I didn't have any.
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But I had black
cowboy boots, see.
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So that's how
the razor ended up
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being in the boot,
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because what am I gonna
do with this razor?
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Where is it gonna come from.
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You know that's
how that happened.
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In the script it said,
"Mr. Blonde dances
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maniacally around
the manacled cop."
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And every time we got to
the part of the rehearsal
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where that was about to happen,
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I would say, "Quentin,
I don't know what to do."
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And he'd go, "No, no, no.
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We'll- we'll-
we'll shoot another day.
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We'll shoot another day."
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He didn't want to do,
um, the dancing.
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Didn't want to do it.
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Iconic.
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Right?
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Yeah. I was like,
"Fuck, man.
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I'll do it,"
(laughs)
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from the floor.
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I asked him, I said,
um, "What's the music
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you're gonna play over
this whole thing?"
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And he said, uh, "Well..."
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he said, "I really want,
uh, Stealers Wheel.
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I want to do
"Stuck In The Middle."
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And I said,
"Why don't you play it for me."
283
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And so they put
it on a boom box.
284
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That's actually how it's
actually cued in the movie.
285
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And so I slowly started
to stand up and I sang while
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I started to suddenly do my
version of a maniacal dance.
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(sings) Well, I don't know why
I came here tonight I got...
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Honestly, I don't know
where it came from.
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I honestly don't.
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(sings) And I'm wondering
how I'll get down the stairs
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I can't dance,
which is obvious,
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and- and then
sort--I just went with it,
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'cause I felt like
it was working
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and I didn't hear
him say, "cut".
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(sings) ...stuck in
the middle with you.
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I felt really respected.
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And the fact that
he let me do that,
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I mean, I- I loved him for that.
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Even the- the ear thing.
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He said, "Okay, step in
the frame with the ear."
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So I walk in the frame
and I have it in my hand,
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which is a horrifying
moment, you know.
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Oh, my God.
304
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And he's going,
"Throw it.
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Throw it.
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Throw it."
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And I didn't really
want to throw it,
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but I couldn't think of
anything interesting to do.
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And so I spoke in it.
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Hey, what's going on?
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(groans) You hear that?
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(groans) (laughs)
So then I threw it.
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And I was thinking, God,
if you were that guy,
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if someone did that to you,
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how horrible would that be?
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It was a terrifying movie.
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As an audience,
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we had never seen anything
like that really.
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It felt so new and so
exciting and explosive
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and dynamic in
just the dialogue.
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Give me that fuckin' thing.
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Now what the hell do you
think you're doin'?
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Give me my book back.
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I'm sick of fuckin' hearing it.
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Joe, I'll give it back
to you when we leave.
326
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What do you mean when we leave?
327
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Give me it back now.
328
00:13:40,155 --> 00:13:41,906
For the past fifteen
minutes now,
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you've been droning
on about names, Toby.
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Toby?
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Once we started shooting
Reservoir Dogs...
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...and I remember just being
333
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a couple days in,
334
00:13:50,665 --> 00:13:54,377
and I pulled Harvey
Keitel aside and I said,
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"Harvey, I'm so excited."
336
00:13:55,962 --> 00:13:58,047
And he said, "Well, why
are you so excited?"
337
00:13:58,047 --> 00:14:00,508
And I said,
"Well, I never imagined
338
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that what we would do on
the film would better
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the experience that
I had of sitting alone
340
00:14:05,305 --> 00:14:07,432
in my room reading the script."
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00:14:07,432 --> 00:14:09,726
I've got Madonna's big dick
coming out of my left ear
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and Toby the Jack,
I don't know what,
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comin' out of my right.
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00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,690
And Harvey Keitel
said, "Of course,
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it's better than that.
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I'm here."
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00:14:17,442 --> 00:14:18,234
(laughs)
348
00:14:18,234 --> 00:14:20,403
There's just so much
good stuff in them.
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No only visually,
but, and not only
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what the actors say,
but what they do
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and how they do it and how
the plot unfolds.
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I think the reason
that every critic
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00:14:32,248 --> 00:14:36,044
and journalist went crazy
for Reservoir Dogs
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is rightfully so.
355
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It was the debut of an
extraordinary new voice.
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And, you know, it was our
nineties Auteur Indie cinema,
357
00:14:49,057 --> 00:14:51,810
you know, the equivalent
of the French New Wave,
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breaking any rules that he
wants.
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It was thrilling.
360
00:14:57,607 --> 00:15:02,320
(groans)
361
00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,197
We were walking
back to the trailers.
362
00:15:04,197 --> 00:15:07,116
I remember Harvey, he says,
"This is good, right?"
363
00:15:07,116 --> 00:15:08,368
And- and, (chuckles)
I went,
364
00:15:08,368 --> 00:15:10,411
"Yes, really fuckin' good."
365
00:15:10,411 --> 00:15:12,163
(chuckles)
Who's a tough guy?
366
00:15:12,163 --> 00:15:14,165
(wheezes)
Who's a tough guy?
367
00:15:14,165 --> 00:15:16,167
(wheezes) And he went,
"Don't jinx it.
368
00:15:16,167 --> 00:15:16,709
Don't jinx it.
369
00:15:16,709 --> 00:15:17,502
Whatever you do,
don't jinx it."
370
00:15:17,502 --> 00:15:18,545
I said, "Okay."
371
00:15:18,545 --> 00:15:22,131
But it was, the word was
out on this- on this guy.
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00:15:22,131 --> 00:15:23,800
So when we went
to France with...
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..Reservoir Dogs,
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00:15:24,717 --> 00:15:27,679
it was, um, it was chosen
as an official selection
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of the film festival,
which is a very prestigious
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00:15:30,390 --> 00:15:31,808
place to be,
particularly for
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00:15:31,808 --> 00:15:33,351
a first time director.
378
00:15:33,351 --> 00:15:35,061
So we showed our
film in the Palais,
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and in the three
days prior to that,
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Quentin and Lawrence and
I are walking around Cannes
381
00:15:40,817 --> 00:15:43,153
and walking down the
Croisette and looking at
382
00:15:43,153 --> 00:15:45,363
different movies and going
to different screenings
383
00:15:45,363 --> 00:15:46,656
and just... Hey.
384
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...having a good old time.
385
00:15:47,907 --> 00:15:52,245
And then we screen the
film as a midnight special
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screening in the Palais.
387
00:15:53,788 --> 00:15:56,833
And the day after that,
388
00:15:56,833 --> 00:15:59,627
when we would walk down
the street as we were
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goofy guys wandering around,
390
00:16:01,588 --> 00:16:04,007
you'd start to hear
people going, "Tarantino!
391
00:16:04,007 --> 00:16:05,383
Tarantino!"
392
00:16:05,383 --> 00:16:08,970
And thus the legend
of Quentin began.
393
00:16:08,970 --> 00:16:12,307
The Auteur was born
somewhat as it should be
394
00:16:12,307 --> 00:16:14,100
in Cannes.
395
00:16:14,100 --> 00:16:18,146
The day after it screened,
I got a call from Mario Kassar
396
00:16:18,146 --> 00:16:19,981
who is head of
Carolco and he said,
397
00:16:19,981 --> 00:16:23,067
"All of our directors
on our boat,
398
00:16:23,067 --> 00:16:26,446
um, want to meet Quentin.
399
00:16:26,446 --> 00:16:30,116
Like what is this movie you
made and who is this guy?"
400
00:16:30,116 --> 00:16:32,118
And I said, well,
I'll bring him by.
401
00:16:32,118 --> 00:16:35,955
So we showed up at
the boat and Renny Harlin
402
00:16:35,955 --> 00:16:38,124
and Oliver Stone
and James Cameron
403
00:16:38,124 --> 00:16:41,211
and Paul Verhoeven
were all there
404
00:16:41,211 --> 00:16:44,547
and they just wanted
to meet Quentin.
405
00:16:44,547 --> 00:16:46,507
And, suddenly,
Quentin has,
406
00:16:46,507 --> 00:16:47,717
not only a seat at the table,
407
00:16:47,717 --> 00:16:50,345
but is kind of running
the table and these guys are
408
00:16:50,345 --> 00:16:52,513
so interested in Quentin.
409
00:16:52,513 --> 00:16:54,766
And this is how it
sort of all began.
410
00:16:54,766 --> 00:16:56,267
Quentin came back
411
00:16:56,267 --> 00:16:58,937
from Cannes after
Reservoir Dogs.
412
00:16:58,937 --> 00:17:00,355
Now that was a
fascinating story,
413
00:17:00,355 --> 00:17:02,690
'cause he was crashing
on my couch, right?
414
00:17:02,690 --> 00:17:05,068
So I was, I had to get, uh,
415
00:17:05,068 --> 00:17:06,903
the "Hollywood
Reporter", "Variety",
416
00:17:06,903 --> 00:17:09,989
all of the- the magazines,
"L.A. Weekly",
417
00:17:09,989 --> 00:17:11,950
all the stuff that had
articles on Reservoir Dogs.
418
00:17:11,950 --> 00:17:13,660
Literally, you couldn't
believe how much stuff.
419
00:17:13,660 --> 00:17:14,327
I went, "Oh wait.
420
00:17:14,327 --> 00:17:15,495
This is like a joke."
421
00:17:15,495 --> 00:17:17,205
He went away to Cannes
422
00:17:17,205 --> 00:17:18,998
just another
independent filmmaker
423
00:17:18,998 --> 00:17:20,375
and came back like a star.
424
00:17:23,044 --> 00:17:25,838
Miramax was the company
that stepped up to
425
00:17:25,838 --> 00:17:27,173
take Reservoir Dogs.
426
00:17:27,173 --> 00:17:30,760
Before that, you know,
Quentin was pretty much
427
00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,055
nobody wanted to give him
a chance to do fuck all.
428
00:17:34,055 --> 00:17:36,265
So that started the
bond of Quentin
429
00:17:36,265 --> 00:17:38,226
and the Weinstein Brothers.
430
00:17:41,646 --> 00:17:44,649
"The whole mystical,
431
00:17:44,649 --> 00:17:48,653
shamanistic thing that I thought
directing was went 'poof'.
432
00:17:48,653 --> 00:17:50,196
I realized I can do that." - QT
433
00:17:50,196 --> 00:17:52,323
We were in a hotel
room on the road
434
00:17:52,323 --> 00:17:54,575
with Reservoir Dogs
435
00:17:54,575 --> 00:17:56,661
and he's got his legal pads out.
436
00:17:56,661 --> 00:17:57,870
And his thing, you know,
437
00:17:57,870 --> 00:17:59,455
the way that he
does his scripts.
438
00:17:59,455 --> 00:18:02,583
He starts reading all these
characters and stage direction.
439
00:18:02,583 --> 00:18:04,043
I love you, Pumpkin.
440
00:18:04,043 --> 00:18:05,795
And I love you,
Honey Bunny.
441
00:18:05,795 --> 00:18:06,921
And it's Pulp Fiction.
442
00:18:06,921 --> 00:18:08,381
Everybody be cool.
This is a robbery.
443
00:18:08,381 --> 00:18:09,090
What?
444
00:18:09,090 --> 00:18:13,261
Any of you fuckin'
pricks move and I'll execute
445
00:18:13,261 --> 00:18:14,929
every one of ya motherfuckers.
446
00:18:14,929 --> 00:18:17,390
Quentin says,
"This is my next thing.
447
00:18:17,390 --> 00:18:22,645
This is what I'm gonna do."
448
00:18:22,645 --> 00:18:24,981
There was an eagerness
by many financiers
449
00:18:24,981 --> 00:18:28,359
to make Quentin's next movie.
450
00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:29,694
We had agreed,
451
00:18:29,694 --> 00:18:31,404
uh, Harvey Weinstein agreed,
452
00:18:31,404 --> 00:18:33,114
uh, to finance the film.
453
00:18:33,114 --> 00:18:36,367
They never interfered
with his material.
454
00:18:36,367 --> 00:18:39,746
(chuckles)
There's subject matter
455
00:18:39,746 --> 00:18:44,250
and dialogue in Quentin's
pictures that really nobody else
456
00:18:44,250 --> 00:18:47,795
could get away with doing,
especially a white guy.
457
00:18:47,795 --> 00:18:49,172
Did you notice
a sign on the front of
458
00:18:49,172 --> 00:18:51,174
my house that said,
"Dead Nigger Storage."
459
00:18:51,174 --> 00:18:52,633
Jimmy, you know
I ain't seen no shit.
460
00:18:52,633 --> 00:18:54,677
Did you notice a sign on
the front of my house
461
00:18:54,677 --> 00:18:57,221
that said "Dead Nigger Storage?"
462
00:18:57,221 --> 00:18:58,723
No.
463
00:18:58,723 --> 00:19:01,059
I got the script and ...
464
00:19:01,059 --> 00:19:01,726
...I kind of sat
465
00:19:01,726 --> 00:19:03,144
there and stared at it.
466
00:19:03,144 --> 00:19:05,146
When I was done I was like,
467
00:19:05,146 --> 00:19:07,899
"Oh, there's no fuckin'
way the script that's good."
468
00:19:07,899 --> 00:19:10,818
I'm just readin' it like
that because he told me
469
00:19:10,818 --> 00:19:12,111
he wrote this part for me.
470
00:19:12,111 --> 00:19:15,490
You know what they call a- a
Quarter Pounder with Cheese,
471
00:19:15,490 --> 00:19:16,824
uh, in Paris?
472
00:19:16,824 --> 00:19:18,451
They don't call it a Quarter
Pounder with Cheese?
473
00:19:18,451 --> 00:19:18,785
No, man.
474
00:19:18,785 --> 00:19:19,827
They got the metric system.
475
00:19:19,827 --> 00:19:22,080
They wouldn't know what
the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
476
00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:23,039
Then what do they call it?
477
00:19:23,039 --> 00:19:25,875
They call it, uh,
The Royale with Cheese.
478
00:19:25,875 --> 00:19:27,251
Royale with Cheese.
479
00:19:27,251 --> 00:19:27,960
That's right.
480
00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,837
Second time it
was just as amazing.
481
00:19:29,837 --> 00:19:33,091
So it's like, (exhales air),
482
00:19:33,091 --> 00:19:34,717
okay.
483
00:19:34,717 --> 00:19:38,554
If Harvey Weinstein has
the balls to make this movie,
484
00:19:38,554 --> 00:19:40,264
this movie's gonna be awesome.
485
00:19:40,264 --> 00:19:42,016
I know my friends
are gonna love it.
486
00:19:42,016 --> 00:19:43,726
He had built a real fan base
487
00:19:43,726 --> 00:19:46,437
on home video by the time
Pulp Fiction came out.
488
00:19:46,437 --> 00:19:48,272
But I think he learned
something, too.
489
00:19:48,272 --> 00:19:50,274
Watching the film
with enough audiences
490
00:19:50,274 --> 00:19:53,027
when he went and
toured film festivals,
491
00:19:53,027 --> 00:19:55,530
he realized that he needed
to give the audience
492
00:19:55,530 --> 00:19:57,615
permission to laugh.
493
00:19:57,615 --> 00:19:59,617
The dude's head gets blown
off in the back of the car.
494
00:19:59,617 --> 00:20:01,119
I mean people laugh at
that shit and then they
495
00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:02,495
catch themselves
and go, "Oh, shit.
496
00:20:02,495 --> 00:20:03,329
I can't laugh at that."
497
00:20:03,329 --> 00:20:04,205
Oh!
498
00:20:04,205 --> 00:20:05,498
What the fuck's happenin'?
499
00:20:05,498 --> 00:20:07,333
Ah, man. Oh, shit, man.
500
00:20:07,333 --> 00:20:08,918
Oh, man, I shot
Marvin in the face.
501
00:20:08,918 --> 00:20:10,128
Why the fuck'd you do that?
502
00:20:10,128 --> 00:20:13,756
And it's cool, too,
because it's not CGI blood.
503
00:20:13,756 --> 00:20:16,717
He still likes to use squibs
and blood packs and stuff,
504
00:20:16,717 --> 00:20:20,805
so I mean I could be twenty-five
feet across the room
505
00:20:20,805 --> 00:20:22,598
and get blood splattered
on me from shootin'
506
00:20:22,598 --> 00:20:24,225
somebody on the other
side of the room,
507
00:20:24,225 --> 00:20:26,185
which was like awesome.
508
00:20:26,185 --> 00:20:27,687
You're sending The Wolf?
509
00:20:27,687 --> 00:20:30,106
Don't you feel better,
motherfucker?
510
00:20:30,106 --> 00:20:32,150
Shit yeah, Negro.
511
00:20:32,150 --> 00:20:33,693
That's all you had to say.
512
00:20:35,027 --> 00:20:35,736
Like you have to call
513
00:20:35,736 --> 00:20:37,155
someone because
you accidentally shot
514
00:20:37,155 --> 00:20:39,115
someone's head off is amazing,
515
00:20:39,115 --> 00:20:40,741
and then that it becomes, like,
516
00:20:40,741 --> 00:20:45,204
he's so blasé about
cleaning bits of brain up.
517
00:20:45,204 --> 00:20:46,789
Oh, man!
518
00:20:46,789 --> 00:20:49,250
I will never forgive
your ass for this shit.
519
00:20:49,250 --> 00:20:50,793
Because he always
intended it to be funny,
520
00:20:50,793 --> 00:20:53,004
but people sort of felt a
little bit uncomfortable.
521
00:20:53,004 --> 00:20:54,005
Am I allowed to laugh?
522
00:20:54,005 --> 00:20:56,632
Am I sick if I'm laughing?
523
00:20:56,632 --> 00:20:57,925
You know, what's going on?
524
00:20:57,925 --> 00:21:01,095
And with Pulp,
intentionally,
525
00:21:01,095 --> 00:21:02,805
he really let everybody
in on the joke.
526
00:21:02,805 --> 00:21:04,432
They look like a
couple of dorks.
527
00:21:04,432 --> 00:21:06,559
(laughs) (laughs) Ha-ha-ha.
528
00:21:06,559 --> 00:21:08,102
They're your clothes,
motherfucker.
529
00:21:08,102 --> 00:21:11,230
I can look at it and
say this is one of those
530
00:21:11,230 --> 00:21:12,273
gangster characters.
531
00:21:12,273 --> 00:21:14,317
(exhales sharply)
This is how he's thinkin',
532
00:21:14,317 --> 00:21:15,902
this is how he's talkin',
and this is what his
533
00:21:15,902 --> 00:21:17,028
cadence is.
534
00:21:17,028 --> 00:21:20,490
And I will strike down
upon thee with great
535
00:21:20,490 --> 00:21:24,827
vengeance and furious
anger those who attempt
536
00:21:24,827 --> 00:21:27,622
to poison and
destroy my brothers.
537
00:21:27,622 --> 00:21:32,084
And because I spent so
many years doing theater.
538
00:21:32,084 --> 00:21:36,005
And you will know
my name is the Lord
539
00:21:36,005 --> 00:21:39,467
when I lay my
vengeance upon thee.
540
00:21:39,467 --> 00:21:46,265
(screams)
I love a monologue.
541
00:21:46,265 --> 00:21:48,643
I remember when I
originally gave this script
542
00:21:48,643 --> 00:21:49,936
to the Weinsteins,
Harvey read it
543
00:21:49,936 --> 00:21:51,938
and called me up and said,
"You guys are crazy.
544
00:21:51,938 --> 00:21:53,439
You just killed
the main character
545
00:21:53,439 --> 00:21:56,108
in the middle of the movie."
546
00:21:56,108 --> 00:22:00,196
(screams) I said,
547
00:22:00,196 --> 00:22:00,947
"Keep reading."
548
00:22:00,947 --> 00:22:03,449
He said, "But you can't
kill the main character in
549
00:22:03,449 --> 00:22:05,034
the middle of the movie."
550
00:22:05,034 --> 00:22:06,327
I said, "Keep reading."
551
00:22:06,327 --> 00:22:07,662
He said, "Oh, my God.
552
00:22:07,662 --> 00:22:09,830
He comes back, doesn't he?"
553
00:22:09,830 --> 00:22:11,207
He goes, "Is it
a happy ending?"
554
00:22:11,207 --> 00:22:12,833
I said, "It's a happy ending.
555
00:22:13,918 --> 00:22:16,504
And the beauty of Quentin
is that when it's time to
556
00:22:16,504 --> 00:22:20,007
shoot the film, though he
wrote it and he conceived it
557
00:22:20,007 --> 00:22:21,467
and he knows where it's going...
558
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:23,511
Hello?
559
00:22:24,595 --> 00:22:28,349
...the actors are a
huge part of that soup
560
00:22:28,349 --> 00:22:30,726
that creates that
character of the story.
561
00:22:30,726 --> 00:22:31,477
(on intercom) Vincent?
562
00:22:33,854 --> 00:22:36,107
Vincent?
563
00:22:36,107 --> 00:22:38,109
I'm on the intercom.
564
00:22:38,109 --> 00:22:41,487
And he wrote the part
565
00:22:41,487 --> 00:22:45,700
that John Travolta played
in that movie for Michael.
566
00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:47,910
And Michael didn't do it.
567
00:22:47,910 --> 00:22:50,496
I was already committed
to Wyatt Earp.
568
00:22:50,496 --> 00:22:52,957
And now here's Quentin
wants me to do Pulp Fiction.
569
00:22:52,957 --> 00:22:55,543
And they were both going
at the same time.
570
00:22:55,543 --> 00:22:57,878
You know look at Travolta
in Pulp Fiction.
571
00:22:57,878 --> 00:23:00,089
It's one of the most
extraordinary performances
572
00:23:00,089 --> 00:23:03,426
in a- in a film that's
filled to the brim
573
00:23:03,426 --> 00:23:05,261
with extraordinary performances.
574
00:23:05,261 --> 00:23:10,349
(gasps) (screams)
John had to be convinced.
575
00:23:10,349 --> 00:23:12,018
But the moment that they met,
576
00:23:12,018 --> 00:23:14,645
it was clear that it- it
was their destiny to-
577
00:23:14,645 --> 00:23:15,646
to work together.
578
00:23:15,646 --> 00:23:19,525
Isn't it true that a part of
John Travolta being in it,
579
00:23:19,525 --> 00:23:22,278
it became John's comeback.
580
00:23:22,278 --> 00:23:25,281
He was doing movies
about talking babies and,
581
00:23:25,281 --> 00:23:28,034
suddenly, he's,
you know, Vincent Vega.
582
00:23:28,034 --> 00:23:29,744
You know he had that wig on.
583
00:23:29,744 --> 00:23:33,748
Nobody'd ever seen
Travolta with a fuckin' gun.
584
00:23:35,666 --> 00:23:37,960
And that was a huge,
huge reason
585
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,086
why the movie worked.
586
00:23:39,086 --> 00:23:41,297
John Travolta can move
like almost nobody else.
587
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,426
The dance scene
that Quentin gives him
588
00:23:45,426 --> 00:23:51,098
is so incredible because Quentin
gets what this guy can do
589
00:23:51,098 --> 00:23:52,391
and lets him do it.
590
00:23:52,391 --> 00:23:54,268
That was neat, man,
that whole thing and,
591
00:23:54,268 --> 00:23:55,978
uh, I- I wouldn't have
come up with that,
592
00:23:55,978 --> 00:23:57,355
you know.
593
00:23:57,355 --> 00:23:59,565
The twist wouldn't haven't
have been exactly the same.
594
00:23:59,565 --> 00:24:01,317
He would have had to
change the script that
595
00:24:01,317 --> 00:24:03,152
they don't win
the dance contest.
596
00:24:05,613 --> 00:24:07,281
When you're on a set
and working with Quentin,
597
00:24:07,281 --> 00:24:10,034
he always seemed to me
like he kept a very healthy
598
00:24:10,034 --> 00:24:13,412
distance between himself
and producer types.
599
00:24:13,412 --> 00:24:15,373
And what Quentin
wanted, Quentin got,
600
00:24:15,373 --> 00:24:16,707
deservedly so.
601
00:24:17,667 --> 00:24:18,542
Action!
602
00:24:18,542 --> 00:24:19,794
We were a bit into production
603
00:24:19,794 --> 00:24:21,962
and Harvey Weinstein
came to visit.
604
00:24:21,962 --> 00:24:25,549
I purposely wanted to take
him to the Jack Rabbit Slim set
605
00:24:25,549 --> 00:24:27,009
because we built it.
606
00:24:27,009 --> 00:24:28,052
It's cool.
607
00:24:28,052 --> 00:24:29,470
It's really filmy.
608
00:24:29,470 --> 00:24:32,223
And Quentin isn't the
"build sets" kind of guy.
609
00:24:32,223 --> 00:24:34,433
He's the "find a real
place and do it".
610
00:24:34,433 --> 00:24:37,353
And as we walked in, I
didn't tell Harvey what we
611
00:24:37,353 --> 00:24:38,312
were shooting.
612
00:24:38,312 --> 00:24:40,147
And I just remember
looking at him and going,
613
00:24:40,147 --> 00:24:42,066
"Welcome to Quentin World."
614
00:24:42,066 --> 00:24:44,777
He just said,
"What- what- what is this?
615
00:24:44,777 --> 00:24:46,195
This is crazy."
616
00:24:46,195 --> 00:24:48,781
You know with the race
track and the dancers
617
00:24:48,781 --> 00:24:51,325
and the trophies
and the characters
618
00:24:51,325 --> 00:24:52,868
imitating other characters.
619
00:24:54,245 --> 00:24:56,330
You know Quentin just has
in his head I want people
620
00:24:56,330 --> 00:25:00,209
to sit in the back seat of a
nineteen-fifty-seven Cadillac.
621
00:25:00,209 --> 00:25:03,504
And, you know, they need to
drink an Amos and Andy shake.
622
00:25:03,504 --> 00:25:05,923
And he comes up with all
this stuff in the same way
623
00:25:05,923 --> 00:25:07,466
that he comes up
with his own products.
624
00:25:09,009 --> 00:25:09,802
Mm...
625
00:25:10,886 --> 00:25:13,556
This is a tasty burger.
626
00:25:13,556 --> 00:25:16,225
Vincent, have you ever
had a Big Kahuna burger?
627
00:25:16,225 --> 00:25:18,811
By the time Pulp
Fiction came around,
628
00:25:18,811 --> 00:25:20,771
he was doing his
own product placement.
629
00:25:21,439 --> 00:25:22,606
Give me a pack of Red Apples.
630
00:25:22,606 --> 00:25:23,774
Filters?
631
00:25:23,774 --> 00:25:24,900
Nah.
632
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:26,694
And that's when
Red Apple came about.
633
00:25:26,694 --> 00:25:28,821
That's when Kahuna
burger came about.
634
00:25:28,821 --> 00:25:31,407
That's when all of that
stuff started to happen.
635
00:25:31,407 --> 00:25:34,452
Red Apple tobacco
is not a real thing.
636
00:25:34,452 --> 00:25:36,036
That's a Quentin cigarette.
637
00:25:36,036 --> 00:25:38,998
There's a great moment
638
00:25:38,998 --> 00:25:40,708
in Hateful Eight where...
639
00:25:40,708 --> 00:25:43,002
...Demian Bichir is standing
640
00:25:43,002 --> 00:25:44,545
behind the bar.
641
00:25:44,545 --> 00:25:48,257
And he's having a smoke
of Red Apple tobacco.
642
00:25:48,257 --> 00:25:49,884
And he's just standing there
like this and he's going,
643
00:25:49,884 --> 00:25:50,509
"Hmm.
644
00:25:50,509 --> 00:25:51,469
This is pretty good."
645
00:25:51,469 --> 00:25:52,595
(chuckles) Like this.
646
00:25:52,595 --> 00:25:56,015
And we got all pissed off
because he got to do
647
00:25:56,015 --> 00:25:57,850
the Red Apple moment.
648
00:25:57,850 --> 00:26:00,060
He got to have it himself.
649
00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:02,688
Everybody from costumes
down to every detail,
650
00:26:02,688 --> 00:26:04,773
to props,
to Red Apple tobacco,
651
00:26:04,773 --> 00:26:08,777
to everything,
there's nothing random
652
00:26:08,777 --> 00:26:10,613
about anything
in a Quentin movie.
653
00:26:10,613 --> 00:26:13,199
Remember her cutting
the ropes off
654
00:26:13,199 --> 00:26:14,909
when she's in the coffin.
655
00:26:14,909 --> 00:26:16,452
That's Mr. Blonde's razor.
656
00:26:16,452 --> 00:26:17,036
It's brilliant, right?
657
00:26:17,036 --> 00:26:18,204
That's cool.
658
00:26:18,204 --> 00:26:20,372
There's a little nod when
you're watching Reservoir Dogs.
659
00:26:20,372 --> 00:26:21,540
If you every hear Mr. White,
660
00:26:21,540 --> 00:26:22,958
somebody says,
"How's Bama?"
661
00:26:22,958 --> 00:26:24,668
By the way,
how's Alabama?
662
00:26:24,668 --> 00:26:25,586
Alabama?
663
00:26:26,879 --> 00:26:29,924
I haven't seen Bama
over a year and a half.
664
00:26:29,924 --> 00:26:31,926
And you understand
that Alabama left,
665
00:26:31,926 --> 00:26:36,180
met Mr. White, learned
about the- the bank heist
666
00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:38,516
or jewelry thief
business from him,
667
00:26:38,516 --> 00:26:40,768
and they couldn't be
together because she was
668
00:26:40,768 --> 00:26:42,353
still in love with Clarence
and she'd be in
669
00:26:42,353 --> 00:26:44,480
love with Clarence
for his whole life.
670
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,775
So all these characters
live in Quentin's universe.
671
00:26:47,775 --> 00:26:50,277
And Vic here, I mean
he's only been nothing
672
00:26:50,277 --> 00:26:54,073
but good luck for us and, that
guys a fuckin' rabbit's foot.
673
00:26:54,073 --> 00:26:57,117
Vic Vega, Vincent Vega,
the Vega Brothers.
674
00:26:57,117 --> 00:26:59,620
And, uh, how
'bout your fella here?
675
00:26:59,620 --> 00:27:00,955
Vincent Vega.
676
00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:03,207
With film it's not
just characters
677
00:27:03,207 --> 00:27:05,834
and it's not just action
and it's not just cinema,
678
00:27:05,834 --> 00:27:08,128
but it's celluloid,
it's seeing it on the film,
679
00:27:08,128 --> 00:27:10,381
and it's the soundtrack,
but also,
680
00:27:10,381 --> 00:27:14,134
amazingly, taking songs
they know and reimagining.
681
00:27:14,134 --> 00:27:15,177
(sings) Bow, bow, bow...
682
00:27:15,177 --> 00:27:19,598
...you'll be a woman soon.
(sings)...a woman...
683
00:27:19,598 --> 00:27:22,977
And you just sit there
and you just- you can't
684
00:27:22,977 --> 00:27:26,522
believe that you're
hearing the song in a new
685
00:27:26,522 --> 00:27:27,565
and different way.
686
00:27:27,565 --> 00:27:29,233
(sings) He's not your kind.
(sings) He's not your kind.
687
00:27:29,233 --> 00:27:32,069
And so much of those songs
were background on the radio
688
00:27:32,069 --> 00:27:33,737
when you were kids or
when you were adults
689
00:27:33,737 --> 00:27:35,197
driving around.
690
00:27:35,197 --> 00:27:38,284
And Quentin takes them and
he takes that background,
691
00:27:38,284 --> 00:27:40,619
counterpoints it
against something that
692
00:27:40,619 --> 00:27:41,912
it doesn't make sense with.
693
00:27:43,622 --> 00:27:46,000
Or he uses it to
emphasize a scene.
694
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,419
What he makes are really rich,
695
00:27:48,419 --> 00:27:51,130
densely textured mosaics.
696
00:27:51,130 --> 00:27:53,632
Try to dissect it,
you'd almost undoubtedly miss
697
00:27:53,632 --> 00:27:55,593
so many of the pieces
and the ways they interact
698
00:27:55,593 --> 00:27:57,261
with each other and
the way they make sense
699
00:27:57,261 --> 00:27:57,970
with each other.
700
00:27:57,970 --> 00:27:58,804
I remember being
701
00:27:58,804 --> 00:28:01,223
on the set of From Dust Till
Dawn while they were
702
00:28:01,223 --> 00:28:03,517
shooting that, and I said,
and by that time Pulp Fiction
703
00:28:03,517 --> 00:28:04,560
just went through the roof.
704
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,228
I said, "Quentin,
did you have any idea
705
00:28:06,228 --> 00:28:06,812
how big this would be?
706
00:28:06,812 --> 00:28:09,773
He goes, (inhales sharply)
"Yeah, no."
707
00:28:09,773 --> 00:28:10,608
(laughs)
708
00:28:10,608 --> 00:28:14,361
The Palme d'Or goes to...
709
00:28:14,361 --> 00:28:15,404
...Pulp Fiction.
710
00:28:51,357 --> 00:28:53,275
What do you do after
that masterpiece?
711
00:28:53,275 --> 00:28:54,777
When you know you're damned.
712
00:28:54,777 --> 00:28:55,819
There's, you know,
713
00:28:55,819 --> 00:28:59,073
after Citizen Kane,
Welles walks away
714
00:28:59,073 --> 00:29:00,199
from Magnificent Ambersons.
715
00:29:00,199 --> 00:29:01,450
Quentin's made Pulp Fiction.
716
00:29:01,450 --> 00:29:04,620
He's made one of the great films
of the last half century.
717
00:29:04,620 --> 00:29:07,998
So what does he do next?
718
00:29:07,998 --> 00:29:12,211
A genre film that in and of
itself is really wonderful.
719
00:29:12,211 --> 00:29:14,380
Plays with time,
plays with character,
720
00:29:14,380 --> 00:29:16,090
plays with your perceptions,
721
00:29:16,090 --> 00:29:18,717
and he doesn't try
and redo Pulp Fiction.
722
00:29:18,717 --> 00:29:20,052
I know he has
723
00:29:20,052 --> 00:29:23,847
this strong Blaxploitation
influence in his life.
724
00:29:23,847 --> 00:29:24,515
For God's sake.
725
00:29:24,515 --> 00:29:27,142
People say he makes
726
00:29:27,142 --> 00:29:28,143
revenge movies.
727
00:29:28,143 --> 00:29:30,979
You know, those were
sort of revenge movies,
728
00:29:30,979 --> 00:29:32,815
all about gettin' the man
or gettin' back at the man Sweet
729
00:29:32,815 --> 00:29:35,067
or gettin' back at the person
who did somethin' bad to you.
730
00:29:35,067 --> 00:29:38,654
It's one of those things
that makes his movies fun.
731
00:29:38,654 --> 00:29:40,447
And those are the things
732
00:29:40,447 --> 00:29:43,534
that influenced his young
cinema experiences,
733
00:29:43,534 --> 00:29:44,827
like mine.
734
00:29:44,827 --> 00:29:46,203
He broke everything down.
735
00:29:46,203 --> 00:29:48,330
He explained, like,
"When I was a kid,
736
00:29:48,330 --> 00:29:50,207
my mom dated black guys.
737
00:29:50,207 --> 00:29:52,376
Black guys would try to
get in good with my mom,
738
00:29:52,376 --> 00:29:56,422
would take me to, uh,
Blaxploitation films
739
00:29:56,422 --> 00:29:57,840
to watch as a kid.
740
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,591
So that's what I grew up on.
741
00:29:59,591 --> 00:30:04,346
So I'm writing what I saw,
what's inside my DNA,
742
00:30:04,346 --> 00:30:06,265
and then that's
why my characters are
743
00:30:06,265 --> 00:30:07,641
always very strong."
744
00:30:07,641 --> 00:30:08,767
You helped her,
didn't you?
745
00:30:08,767 --> 00:30:09,685
When you're sort of bred
746
00:30:09,685 --> 00:30:11,061
into naturally appreciating,
747
00:30:11,061 --> 00:30:12,938
it's not like
someone's taught you,
748
00:30:12,938 --> 00:30:15,899
you should respect women,
or black people are equal.
749
00:30:15,899 --> 00:30:17,735
Like someone's not
teaching you that lesson.
750
00:30:17,735 --> 00:30:19,611
You just know it to be true.
751
00:30:19,611 --> 00:30:21,363
This is how he views the world,
752
00:30:21,363 --> 00:30:24,992
and he paints the world the
way he sees it in his movies.
753
00:30:24,992 --> 00:30:28,203
And so the power is
this is his truth.
754
00:30:28,203 --> 00:30:29,997
Jackie Brown is in many ways
755
00:30:29,997 --> 00:30:32,583
an ode to the sort of
Blaxploitation films
756
00:30:32,583 --> 00:30:33,125
of the period.
757
00:30:33,125 --> 00:30:34,835
And who are you gonna cast?
758
00:30:34,835 --> 00:30:35,669
Pam Grier.
759
00:30:36,712 --> 00:30:37,963
I'd heard about Foxy Brown
760
00:30:37,963 --> 00:30:39,882
and Coffy and all
the Pam Grier movie.
761
00:30:39,882 --> 00:30:40,340
You know, of course,
762
00:30:40,340 --> 00:30:41,633
Pam Grier's had
a glorious career
763
00:30:41,633 --> 00:30:43,385
even up before
Quentin Tarantino.
764
00:30:43,385 --> 00:30:45,554
He just, like, has made
her that- that much cooler
765
00:30:45,554 --> 00:30:46,388
in my opinion.
766
00:30:46,388 --> 00:30:48,307
Pam Grier can kick ass,
767
00:30:48,307 --> 00:30:48,932
you know what I mean?
768
00:30:48,932 --> 00:30:51,393
It's not all Foxy Brown
and it ain't all,
769
00:30:51,393 --> 00:30:52,978
you know, Straight
Outta Compton.
770
00:30:56,231 --> 00:30:58,859
Jackie Brown, to me,
that performance is
771
00:30:58,859 --> 00:31:01,278
so amazing and beautiful.
772
00:31:01,278 --> 00:31:03,489
But still like so strong
773
00:31:03,489 --> 00:31:06,617
and so flawed and desperate,
774
00:31:06,617 --> 00:31:08,702
and yet very sort of steely.
775
00:31:08,702 --> 00:31:11,079
I mean he writes women
like nobody's business.
776
00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:14,416
In the last forty-five
to fifty years,
777
00:31:14,416 --> 00:31:18,796
women have not been given
a fair shake in terms of,
778
00:31:18,796 --> 00:31:23,759
uh, leading roles in, uh,
movies where we can see
779
00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:25,636
what makes the woman tick.
780
00:31:25,636 --> 00:31:27,095
That's why you came
here to kill me.
781
00:31:27,095 --> 00:31:28,097
(chuckles) I ain't come
over here to kill you.
782
00:31:28,097 --> 00:31:28,847
Oh, no, that's fine.
783
00:31:28,847 --> 00:31:29,431
It's okay.
784
00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:31,517
Now I forgive you.
785
00:31:31,517 --> 00:31:33,018
That's the thing with
Quentin's dialogue.
786
00:31:33,018 --> 00:31:34,102
A couple of men
that would be like,
787
00:31:34,102 --> 00:31:36,271
I mean, women don't
really talk like that.
788
00:31:36,271 --> 00:31:37,397
And I was like
(laughs).
789
00:31:37,397 --> 00:31:40,109
Aw, that's cute,
(inhales) 'cause we really do.
790
00:31:40,109 --> 00:31:42,611
Now if I have to do
more than a year,
791
00:31:42,611 --> 00:31:45,072
you'll pay another one
hundred thousand dollars.
792
00:31:45,072 --> 00:31:46,573
Women would come up
to us and be like,
793
00:31:46,573 --> 00:31:47,366
"Oh, my God.
794
00:31:47,366 --> 00:31:49,493
How- Is he a woman
on the inside?"
795
00:31:49,493 --> 00:31:50,619
I'm like yeah, he's kind of,
796
00:31:50,619 --> 00:31:51,829
he's a bit of woman
on the inside.
797
00:31:51,829 --> 00:31:53,205
He's a little bit
black on the inside.
798
00:31:53,205 --> 00:31:55,457
He's just got a whole bunch
of stuff going on in him.
799
00:31:55,457 --> 00:31:58,377
If you think
that you know more
800
00:31:58,377 --> 00:32:01,421
about a movie or an actor
or- or anything to do
801
00:32:01,421 --> 00:32:04,132
with cinema history,
he will just sit there
802
00:32:04,132 --> 00:32:07,928
and smile and listen to you,
and then he will bury you
803
00:32:07,928 --> 00:32:09,721
with how much stuff he knows.
804
00:32:09,721 --> 00:32:12,015
Exactly the fact that Quentin
didn't go to film school.
805
00:32:12,015 --> 00:32:14,309
I guess his film school
was video archives
806
00:32:14,309 --> 00:32:18,730
and the endless movies that
he could learn and read and,
807
00:32:18,730 --> 00:32:22,109
uh, watch and, uh,
and enjoy and turn other
808
00:32:22,109 --> 00:32:22,776
people onto.
809
00:32:22,776 --> 00:32:24,653
Get himself gone.
810
00:32:24,653 --> 00:32:27,865
The films that he gets
off on vary vastly.
811
00:32:27,865 --> 00:32:29,867
Everybody's after Kowalski
812
00:32:29,867 --> 00:32:32,536
He's passionate
about Vanishing Point
813
00:32:32,536 --> 00:32:34,037
and that genre.
814
00:32:34,037 --> 00:32:38,584
And then Moeshe.
815
00:32:38,584 --> 00:32:40,544
He just loves the
TV show Moesha.
816
00:32:40,544 --> 00:32:41,712
Moeshe.
817
00:32:41,712 --> 00:32:43,714
I would have
never guessed that.
818
00:32:43,714 --> 00:32:45,966
And I- I think he's like
that about all kinds of things.
819
00:32:45,966 --> 00:32:47,134
I think he's like
that with food,
820
00:32:47,134 --> 00:32:50,721
like he loves amazingly
high quality French dishes
821
00:32:50,721 --> 00:32:52,931
and he- he will smash
a Pink's hotdog,
822
00:32:52,931 --> 00:32:55,475
you know, like I honestly,
I think he's kind of like
823
00:32:55,475 --> 00:32:56,435
that with women.
824
00:32:56,435 --> 00:32:58,228
..break my heart
825
00:32:58,228 --> 00:33:00,480
and make me sad.
826
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,025
Tell me what did I do wrong.
827
00:33:03,025 --> 00:33:04,610
He's sort of like,
if he's in love with you
828
00:33:04,610 --> 00:33:05,819
and you're a big, black,
829
00:33:05,819 --> 00:33:07,654
curvy, gorgeous lady,
he's all about big,
830
00:33:07,654 --> 00:33:08,530
black curves.
831
00:33:08,530 --> 00:33:10,032
(sings) My baby love...
832
00:33:10,908 --> 00:33:12,117
And if you're a waify,
833
00:33:12,117 --> 00:33:14,411
skinny little white model type
and he's in love with you,
834
00:33:14,411 --> 00:33:16,747
he just thinks that's the
hottest thing on the planet.
835
00:33:16,747 --> 00:33:18,540
He's just like an appreciator.
836
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,710
He knows everybody.
837
00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:24,838
And when he meets an
actor from my era,
838
00:33:24,838 --> 00:33:26,548
the era when he was growin' up,
839
00:33:26,548 --> 00:33:31,094
he amazes them and amazed
me by reminding me of this
840
00:33:31,094 --> 00:33:32,679
and that and things and moments
841
00:33:32,679 --> 00:33:35,098
and scenes that he remembers.
842
00:33:35,098 --> 00:33:39,228
He also built a way of sharing
his vision with people.
843
00:33:39,228 --> 00:33:40,812
It wasn't storyboards.
844
00:33:40,812 --> 00:33:42,981
It was references.
845
00:33:42,981 --> 00:33:45,776
And so he'd say,
846
00:33:45,776 --> 00:33:48,528
"The warehouse looks like this."
847
00:33:48,528 --> 00:33:51,365
Or, "Look at this film
for a reference for
848
00:33:51,365 --> 00:33:53,450
what I'm kind of
trying to do here."
849
00:33:53,450 --> 00:33:55,410
When you're in
rehearsal with him,...
850
00:33:55,410 --> 00:33:57,537
...you're discussing
those references,
851
00:33:57,537 --> 00:34:00,666
specifically, and he gives
you stuff to watch.
852
00:34:00,666 --> 00:34:03,502
It's not something you come to
853
00:34:03,502 --> 00:34:05,337
lightly with him.
854
00:34:05,337 --> 00:34:06,630
It's not a rip-off
855
00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:09,258
that's just crap.
856
00:34:09,258 --> 00:34:11,176
And it's not even an homage.
857
00:34:12,761 --> 00:34:15,764
It's that he's using
the tools of cinema to make
858
00:34:15,764 --> 00:34:17,849
more resonant
and greater cinema.
859
00:34:18,558 --> 00:34:22,187
Quentin uses filmic vocabulary.
860
00:34:22,187 --> 00:34:23,939
If you look at great art,
861
00:34:23,939 --> 00:34:26,650
that's what musicians
do, composers do,
862
00:34:26,650 --> 00:34:28,193
painters do, sculptors do.
863
00:34:28,193 --> 00:34:29,444
'Cause he always, you know,
864
00:34:31,113 --> 00:34:34,574
elevates everything
and charges everything.
865
00:34:34,574 --> 00:34:38,078
The detective was the
genre that I started with.
866
00:34:38,078 --> 00:34:41,540
Old cars, old clothes,
old jokes, fast women,
867
00:34:41,540 --> 00:34:42,916
they all lied to me.
868
00:34:42,916 --> 00:34:45,168
The cynical,
but human detective.
869
00:34:45,168 --> 00:34:47,671
Robert Forster as Banyon.
870
00:34:47,671 --> 00:34:49,506
One of the things
Quentin does is incur
871
00:34:49,506 --> 00:34:51,049
talent all the time.
872
00:34:51,049 --> 00:34:52,217
I mean a lot of
times people will
873
00:34:52,217 --> 00:34:54,344
resurrect old actors
and they have them do
874
00:34:54,344 --> 00:34:55,262
what they always did.
875
00:34:55,262 --> 00:35:00,809
What Quentin always does
is he pushes them further.
876
00:35:00,809 --> 00:35:02,436
He takes them to a new place.
877
00:35:04,021 --> 00:35:06,064
He gives them a
different career.
878
00:35:06,064 --> 00:35:08,275
When my career was
at the very bottom,
879
00:35:08,275 --> 00:35:09,651
in walks Quentin.
880
00:35:09,651 --> 00:35:12,696
He said, "I am
adapting Rum Punch,
881
00:35:12,696 --> 00:35:15,741
an Elmore Leonard
novel, to a movie."
882
00:35:15,741 --> 00:35:17,784
And I said to him,
"I don't think they're gonna
883
00:35:17,784 --> 00:35:19,661
let you hire me."
884
00:35:19,661 --> 00:35:22,581
That period in my career,
the distributors
885
00:35:22,581 --> 00:35:23,790
didn't want me.
886
00:35:23,790 --> 00:35:25,709
They wanted, you know,
somebody with a bigger name.
887
00:35:25,709 --> 00:35:28,420
And he said, and I will
never forget him for it,
888
00:35:28,420 --> 00:35:31,548
he said, "I hire
anybody I want."
889
00:35:31,548 --> 00:35:34,509
And that is the first
moment when I said,
890
00:35:34,509 --> 00:35:37,846
"Wow, Bob, this is
a life-changer."
891
00:35:37,846 --> 00:35:40,182
All right, before we start
talking about stewardesses,
892
00:35:40,182 --> 00:35:41,975
let's get Beaumont
out of the way first.
893
00:35:41,975 --> 00:35:44,144
Uh, you know, I think
somebody already did.
894
00:35:44,144 --> 00:35:45,771
I got a call from my agents.
895
00:35:45,771 --> 00:35:47,564
They said that, uh,
Vince Gilligan was
896
00:35:47,564 --> 00:35:48,315
gonna call me.
897
00:35:51,068 --> 00:35:52,194
I picked up the phone.
898
00:35:52,194 --> 00:35:54,905
Vince said, "Uh,
we've been saving a role
899
00:35:54,905 --> 00:35:56,239
called "The Disappearer".
900
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,867
We've been calling it
the Robert Forster role.
901
00:35:58,867 --> 00:36:00,535
And it was, in fact,
902
00:36:00,535 --> 00:36:01,787
a straight shooter.
903
00:36:01,787 --> 00:36:02,996
It's gonna take me
904
00:36:02,996 --> 00:36:05,665
some time to get your
new situation fixed.
905
00:36:05,665 --> 00:36:07,292
Until then, you're
gonna be staying here.
906
00:36:07,292 --> 00:36:09,628
I've got a place
downstairs out of sight.
907
00:36:09,628 --> 00:36:11,963
And, uh, this was
a direct result,
908
00:36:11,963 --> 00:36:13,548
of course, of Jackie Brown.
909
00:36:13,548 --> 00:36:18,095
People kept sayin' well,
it's not Pulp Fiction.
910
00:36:18,095 --> 00:36:19,971
No, it's fuckin' Jackie Brown.
911
00:36:19,971 --> 00:36:21,973
It's a different pace,
it's a different story
912
00:36:21,973 --> 00:36:24,059
and it's about different
kinds of people.
913
00:36:24,059 --> 00:36:26,853
Yeah, there are some
criminals in there,
914
00:36:26,853 --> 00:36:29,564
but it's really an adult
movie about people
915
00:36:29,564 --> 00:36:31,525
in a certain place in
their life when it's time
916
00:36:31,525 --> 00:36:33,318
for them to make a choice
about how they want to live
917
00:36:33,318 --> 00:36:34,152
the rest of their life.
918
00:36:34,152 --> 00:36:35,612
It's a crossroads movie.
919
00:36:35,612 --> 00:36:37,614
If you had the chance,
unemployed now,
920
00:36:38,990 --> 00:36:41,701
to walk away with a
half million dollars
921
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,037
would you take it?
922
00:36:44,037 --> 00:36:47,415
Despite whatever the
minor violence is in it,
923
00:36:47,415 --> 00:36:51,169
it's just a great story
about these people trying
924
00:36:51,169 --> 00:36:52,587
to figure out their lives.
925
00:36:56,341 --> 00:36:59,636
When Jackie Brown
came out of the prison
926
00:36:59,636 --> 00:37:03,598
and had that long walk toward me
927
00:37:03,598 --> 00:37:06,476
and it is accompanied
by music...
928
00:37:10,897 --> 00:37:19,948
(sings) Why do I keep my
mind on you all the time?
929
00:37:19,948 --> 00:37:20,949
And I don't even know you...
930
00:37:20,949 --> 00:37:23,827
...you're watching
this guy fall in love
931
00:37:23,827 --> 00:37:24,911
with a woman.
932
00:37:27,122 --> 00:37:31,626
I cannot tell you how
emotive that was,
933
00:37:31,626 --> 00:37:34,129
and for a director to do that.
934
00:37:34,129 --> 00:37:36,339
They never do that.
935
00:37:36,339 --> 00:37:38,800
Out of all those films,
Jackie Brown is sort of like
936
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,177
the best one.
937
00:37:40,177 --> 00:37:43,096
Yeah, for me, just because
of the cinematic beauty
938
00:37:43,096 --> 00:37:46,308
and gentleness of that
particular story.
939
00:37:46,308 --> 00:37:47,893
(sing) ...baby.
940
00:37:47,893 --> 00:37:48,768
Hmm.
941
00:37:48,768 --> 00:37:50,020
(sing) Gave you the love
you never knew, girl.
942
00:37:50,020 --> 00:37:51,897
Who is this?
943
00:37:51,897 --> 00:37:53,565
The Delphonics.
(sing) Didn't I do it baby...
944
00:37:55,817 --> 00:37:56,651
It's nice.
945
00:37:56,651 --> 00:37:57,486
Mm-hmm.
946
00:38:10,248 --> 00:38:11,750
The main influences of Kill Bill
947
00:38:11,750 --> 00:38:18,548
is all the best of
Hong Kong cinema.
948
00:38:18,548 --> 00:38:19,925
Quentin is in love
949
00:38:19,925 --> 00:38:21,218
with the culture.
950
00:38:21,218 --> 00:38:22,969
When he does martial arts stuff,
951
00:38:22,969 --> 00:38:26,598
he's recreating the energy
and he's participating as
952
00:38:26,598 --> 00:38:28,850
somebody who is so
thrilled watching this.
953
00:38:30,310 --> 00:38:32,729
The last script Quentin
gave me was Kill Bill...
954
00:38:32,729 --> 00:38:33,313
And it was like almost
955
00:38:33,313 --> 00:38:34,731
the size of a small phone book.
956
00:38:34,731 --> 00:38:35,440
Remember those?
957
00:38:36,650 --> 00:38:38,610
Story by Q and U,
958
00:38:39,819 --> 00:38:41,821
meaning U as in Uma.
959
00:38:41,821 --> 00:38:43,865
We've all just been
calling her the bride on
960
00:38:43,865 --> 00:38:45,075
account of the dress.
961
00:38:45,075 --> 00:38:47,953
You can tell she was pregnant.
962
00:38:47,953 --> 00:38:49,746
(spits)
963
00:38:49,746 --> 00:38:52,374
That woman deserves
her revenge and-
964
00:38:52,374 --> 00:38:53,750
and we deserve to die.
965
00:38:53,750 --> 00:38:56,211
I could see the
faces of the cunts
966
00:38:56,211 --> 00:39:01,007
who did this to me and
the dicks responsible.
967
00:39:01,007 --> 00:39:02,634
It read like a novel.
968
00:39:02,634 --> 00:39:03,677
It was funny.
969
00:39:03,677 --> 00:39:05,470
It had all this action in it,
970
00:39:05,470 --> 00:39:07,555
you know, but it read in-
in a way that you just
971
00:39:07,555 --> 00:39:08,556
could not put it down.
972
00:39:08,556 --> 00:39:09,307
He would tell me what to read.
973
00:39:09,307 --> 00:39:09,724
I was like, wait.
974
00:39:09,724 --> 00:39:11,726
Okay, I'm gonna read
it so now I know
975
00:39:11,726 --> 00:39:13,520
what action I'm gonna do.
976
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,189
And I'd start reading
and I'd forget
977
00:39:16,189 --> 00:39:18,275
to read for the stunts
and I just would read
978
00:39:18,275 --> 00:39:18,984
the whole thing again.
979
00:39:18,984 --> 00:39:20,277
It happened four times.
980
00:39:20,277 --> 00:39:22,112
That was when I first
had my kind of like
981
00:39:22,112 --> 00:39:25,240
professional moment
of, "Holy shit.
982
00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:27,033
I'm gonna be a part
of something magic."
983
00:39:34,541 --> 00:39:37,919
Quentin has it as Boomer
is this part of The Bride
984
00:39:37,919 --> 00:39:40,046
and Zoë is this
part of The Bride.
985
00:39:40,046 --> 00:39:42,173
Whatever's in front of
the camera is different parts
986
00:39:42,173 --> 00:39:43,508
of the same whole.
987
00:39:43,508 --> 00:39:45,468
We were doing the scene
where she runs up
988
00:39:45,468 --> 00:39:46,303
the banister.
989
00:39:46,303 --> 00:39:47,637
And he came to me
and he was like,
990
00:39:47,637 --> 00:39:49,681
"So, what are you
doing in the shot?"
991
00:39:49,681 --> 00:39:52,309
And I was like, I'm
running up the banister.
992
00:39:52,309 --> 00:39:53,351
And he was like,
"Yeah, but why?"
993
00:39:53,351 --> 00:39:56,438
And I was like, trick question.
994
00:39:56,438 --> 00:39:57,439
'Cause that's my job."
995
00:39:57,439 --> 00:39:58,189
You know, and
he was like, "No,
996
00:39:58,189 --> 00:40:00,650
but why is The Bride
running up the banister?"
997
00:40:00,650 --> 00:40:03,903
and I was like,
"Oh, to get to O-Ren."
998
00:40:03,903 --> 00:40:06,489
And he was like, "And why is
she trying to get to O-Ren?"
999
00:40:07,699 --> 00:40:09,200
It sounds like
such actor-speak,
1000
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,786
but my running up
the banister shifted,
1001
00:40:11,786 --> 00:40:13,371
because now
I have an intention.
1002
00:40:13,371 --> 00:40:15,123
Now I have a reason outside of
1003
00:40:15,123 --> 00:40:16,916
just technically
getting it right.
1004
00:40:16,916 --> 00:40:19,336
That was always super
important to Quentin,
1005
00:40:19,336 --> 00:40:21,046
"'cause that bitch
fucked up my life
1006
00:40:21,046 --> 00:40:22,005
and I want her to die."
1007
00:40:26,259 --> 00:40:29,429
The fact that he always
has women in these strong
1008
00:40:29,429 --> 00:40:32,724
positions isn't something
that he necessarily
1009
00:40:32,724 --> 00:40:34,934
highlights or billboards.
(overlapping) (whistles)
1010
00:40:34,934 --> 00:40:36,561
To him, of course,
it makes sense
1011
00:40:36,561 --> 00:40:40,440
these are women doing this,
are fighting or are leaders.
1012
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,399
He does it and, it's for him,
1013
00:40:41,399 --> 00:40:42,317
it's just natural.
1014
00:40:42,317 --> 00:40:45,445
It's such an interesting
conversation to have these days,
1015
00:40:46,363 --> 00:40:50,116
girl power and a quality
that sort of feels like
1016
00:40:50,116 --> 00:40:52,869
it's all kind of
coming to a head.
1017
00:40:52,869 --> 00:40:56,748
The biggest feat is gonna
be making it normal
1018
00:40:56,748 --> 00:40:59,626
that we are in lead
positions as opposed to
1019
00:40:59,626 --> 00:41:00,960
it being the fight.
1020
00:41:02,003 --> 00:41:05,298
And that's where Quentin
is just a priceless ally.
1021
00:41:05,298 --> 00:41:07,467
And I think he needs to sit
in an interview and be like,
1022
00:41:07,467 --> 00:41:09,094
"Listen, women should
have these roles
1023
00:41:09,094 --> 00:41:09,427
and women..."
1024
00:41:09,427 --> 00:41:12,305
Like he doesn't have to
drive it because he's-
1025
00:41:12,305 --> 00:41:14,557
he's just presenting it
as such.
1026
00:41:14,557 --> 00:41:17,185
Now if any of you
sons of bitches (yells)
1027
00:41:17,185 --> 00:41:21,815
got anything else to say,
now's the fuckin' time!
1028
00:41:21,815 --> 00:41:26,194
O-Ren Ishii is a survivor.
1029
00:41:31,074 --> 00:41:35,036
She is a woman who was
probably never going to die
1030
00:41:35,036 --> 00:41:36,996
peacefully of old age.
1031
00:41:36,996 --> 00:41:38,665
She swore revenge.
1032
00:41:39,624 --> 00:41:41,668
It only made sense
that in the end,
1033
00:41:41,668 --> 00:41:43,962
in her great honor,
she was killed
1034
00:41:43,962 --> 00:41:45,630
with the Hattori Hanso sword.
1035
00:41:49,926 --> 00:41:52,303
Uma worked her ass off
and was in training
1036
00:41:52,303 --> 00:41:54,806
for a long time before
I was even on board.
1037
00:41:54,806 --> 00:41:56,182
She had a crazy schedule.
1038
00:41:56,182 --> 00:41:57,976
She was in just
about every shot.
1039
00:41:57,976 --> 00:42:00,603
We were shooting in Beijing.
1040
00:42:00,603 --> 00:42:01,855
She had a newborn.
1041
00:42:03,022 --> 00:42:05,984
She was under intense
amounts of physical pressure.
1042
00:42:05,984 --> 00:42:08,027
(grunts) (grunts)
1043
00:42:08,027 --> 00:42:09,279
Cut. Great.
1044
00:42:09,279 --> 00:42:09,821
Excellent.
1045
00:42:09,821 --> 00:42:10,363
Excellent.
1046
00:42:10,363 --> 00:42:13,741
Check (indistinct)
(laughs)
1047
00:42:13,741 --> 00:42:16,244
Like, you know, she was
in pain a lot of the time.
1048
00:42:16,244 --> 00:42:18,955
She was sort of like,
she had blisters and cuts,
1049
00:42:18,955 --> 00:42:19,330
things like that.
1050
00:42:19,330 --> 00:42:21,708
It's just part of
the- the deal.
1051
00:42:21,708 --> 00:42:22,834
It feels good to be tough.
1052
00:42:22,834 --> 00:42:24,752
It's strangely
sort of liberating.
1053
00:42:24,752 --> 00:42:26,379
Yeah, I'm bleeding.
1054
00:42:26,379 --> 00:42:27,005
Keep rolling.
1055
00:42:28,089 --> 00:42:31,676
The girl fight
between Uma and, uh,
1056
00:42:31,676 --> 00:42:34,721
Vivica Fox in Kill Bill is,
1057
00:42:34,721 --> 00:42:36,931
without a doubt,
the greatest fight
1058
00:42:36,931 --> 00:42:39,267
any two women
ever had in a movie.
1059
00:42:39,267 --> 00:42:40,852
It's crazy good.
1060
00:42:51,237 --> 00:42:53,656
Vivica and Uma just
were so great in that scene.
1061
00:42:53,656 --> 00:42:54,991
When I'd sit
there and watch,
1062
00:42:54,991 --> 00:42:56,493
I'd forget that
I was there to do a job.
1063
00:42:56,493 --> 00:42:57,785
When the daughter
comes in the door,
1064
00:42:57,785 --> 00:42:59,996
I'm just like God,
it's beautiful.
1065
00:42:59,996 --> 00:43:03,249
The mother versus
assassin just like
1066
00:43:03,249 --> 00:43:05,502
(clicks tongue)
in one shot. Perfect.
1067
00:43:06,211 --> 00:43:07,337
Mommy, I'm home.
1068
00:43:07,337 --> 00:43:08,838
Hey, baby.
1069
00:43:08,838 --> 00:43:10,381
How was school?
1070
00:43:10,381 --> 00:43:11,883
It softened everything.
1071
00:43:11,883 --> 00:43:12,842
Just amazing.
1072
00:43:12,842 --> 00:43:14,385
And- and- and
The Bride sells it,
1073
00:43:14,385 --> 00:43:16,221
too, because she knows,
you know.
1074
00:43:17,305 --> 00:43:18,306
It's just genius.
1075
00:43:18,306 --> 00:43:21,476
It's absolute,
irrevocable genius, man.
1076
00:43:21,476 --> 00:43:24,604
There's a viciousness
and yet their femininity
1077
00:43:24,604 --> 00:43:26,397
never went away for a second.
1078
00:43:27,732 --> 00:43:29,734
It's all about presentation.
1079
00:43:29,734 --> 00:43:31,528
You walk through
a shoji screen and then,
1080
00:43:31,528 --> 00:43:34,322
suddenly, there's this
winter wonderland.
1081
00:43:36,741 --> 00:43:41,162
He really worked with
the designers to create this
1082
00:43:41,162 --> 00:43:43,957
beautiful visual that
also turned into a wonderful
1083
00:43:43,957 --> 00:43:46,501
sound backdrop for
what we were doing.
1084
00:43:48,336 --> 00:43:49,754
There's the bamboo
water fountain.
1085
00:43:49,754 --> 00:43:51,714
It almost acts as a metronome.
1086
00:43:52,507 --> 00:43:56,594
It was absolutely beautiful,
1087
00:43:56,594 --> 00:43:58,846
like when you are watching
something from another time.
1088
00:44:00,181 --> 00:44:02,058
It's one of the perfect
examples of movie magic
1089
00:44:02,058 --> 00:44:05,395
where the practicality of
it was kind of difficult.
1090
00:44:06,187 --> 00:44:09,357
The snow we were using was
sort of difficult to breathe.
1091
00:44:09,357 --> 00:44:10,358
So in between takes,
1092
00:44:10,358 --> 00:44:12,902
we had the protective
masks on and, you know,
1093
00:44:12,902 --> 00:44:15,029
we were constantly having
to cover our footprints.
1094
00:44:17,991 --> 00:44:21,661
And action!
1095
00:44:21,661 --> 00:44:22,662
Women work for him.
1096
00:44:22,662 --> 00:44:25,582
They are fiercely loyal
'cause he actually
1097
00:44:25,582 --> 00:44:27,333
is very protective of them.
1098
00:44:27,333 --> 00:44:28,668
He promotes them.
1099
00:44:28,668 --> 00:44:30,461
He works creatively with them.
1100
00:44:30,461 --> 00:44:32,422
And when you look at
the female characters
1101
00:44:32,422 --> 00:44:33,631
in his films,
1102
00:44:33,631 --> 00:44:35,508
they're all quite remarkable.
1103
00:44:36,342 --> 00:44:37,302
Cut! Okay?
1104
00:44:37,302 --> 00:44:39,012
Yeah. Terrific!
1105
00:44:42,765 --> 00:44:43,641
You guys were great.
1106
00:44:43,641 --> 00:44:44,892
That was terrific.
1107
00:44:44,892 --> 00:44:46,311
Part of me still feels
like I don't want to talk
1108
00:44:46,311 --> 00:44:49,397
about it because I don't
want people to- to know.
1109
00:44:49,397 --> 00:44:53,151
(indistinct) It was
the camera angle
1110
00:44:53,151 --> 00:44:55,778
that sold the fact that
my head had been cut off
1111
00:44:56,738 --> 00:44:59,574
so I look like I had a little
bit of a cone head in real life.
1112
00:44:59,574 --> 00:45:00,908
And then when you
see it in the movie,
1113
00:45:00,908 --> 00:45:02,660
it's just like
angels are singing.
1114
00:45:07,498 --> 00:45:09,083
There's something
beautiful in understanding
1115
00:45:09,083 --> 00:45:10,877
that- that is done in camera.
1116
00:45:13,838 --> 00:45:15,173
That was completely practical
1117
00:45:15,173 --> 00:45:17,216
because you know
Quentin doesn't,
1118
00:45:17,216 --> 00:45:19,594
is a fan of avoiding
CGI when possible.
1119
00:45:25,850 --> 00:45:27,352
He adores Uma.
1120
00:45:29,020 --> 00:45:31,981
And nobody was more
enthusiastic than Quentin.
1121
00:45:31,981 --> 00:45:35,360
I mean, he's still like a
kid when he gets worked up.
1122
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,070
Sometimes you do dumb things.
1123
00:45:48,623 --> 00:45:51,084
This is the thing
with this business.
1124
00:45:51,084 --> 00:45:56,339
You make the best level of plans
and you have great people.
1125
00:45:59,342 --> 00:46:01,427
And then sometimes
there's human error.
1126
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:13,523
Everyone was just having
1127
00:46:13,523 --> 00:46:15,525
fun making a movie.
1128
00:46:16,359 --> 00:46:18,111
And everybody was
damn happy to be on a
1129
00:46:18,111 --> 00:46:20,697
set with Quentin Tarantino.
1130
00:46:20,697 --> 00:46:23,116
And everybody was damn
happy to be represented
1131
00:46:23,116 --> 00:46:25,326
and distributed by
Harvey Weinstein
1132
00:46:25,326 --> 00:46:26,411
and the Weinstein Company.
1133
00:46:33,918 --> 00:46:36,421
What was weird
about Harvey is,
1134
00:46:36,421 --> 00:46:38,131
and this was true of
his relationship with
1135
00:46:38,131 --> 00:46:40,341
competitors and with people,
1136
00:46:40,341 --> 00:46:42,969
was he- he was a bully
and he enjoyed it.
1137
00:46:42,969 --> 00:46:47,140
He had this- this
enormous power that,
1138
00:46:48,808 --> 00:46:51,769
I know he was conscious
that he had it,
1139
00:46:51,769 --> 00:46:54,605
and I know that he would
consciously use it,
1140
00:46:56,941 --> 00:47:00,236
but whether or not he
realized he was using it
1141
00:47:00,236 --> 00:47:03,740
in such an obstructive way,
1142
00:47:03,740 --> 00:47:05,366
I don't know about that.
1143
00:47:05,366 --> 00:47:07,952
I'll tell you a funny thing
that happened in Cannes.
1144
00:47:07,952 --> 00:47:10,538
I was at this little reception
thing with Quentin.
1145
00:47:10,538 --> 00:47:12,999
Here comes Harvey and he
comes around the corner
1146
00:47:12,999 --> 00:47:15,752
and he's sweating,
like profusely sweating.
1147
00:47:15,752 --> 00:47:18,421
And he's got this really
angry face, you know.
1148
00:47:18,421 --> 00:47:20,465
You see a Harvey
Weinstein in that mood,
1149
00:47:22,383 --> 00:47:24,635
everybody literally froze.
1150
00:47:24,635 --> 00:47:26,637
And right before he
had come in the room,
1151
00:47:26,637 --> 00:47:28,639
Quentin had introduced
me to Harvey's wife
1152
00:47:28,639 --> 00:47:29,682
and his little daughter.
1153
00:47:29,682 --> 00:47:33,102
And the little daughter
had a doll in her hand
1154
00:47:33,102 --> 00:47:36,564
and she had handed me the
doll while we were talking.
1155
00:47:36,564 --> 00:47:40,026
And so I was holding the
doll when Harvey came around
1156
00:47:40,026 --> 00:47:42,069
the corner and came
into the room.
1157
00:47:42,069 --> 00:47:44,822
And he looked at me
and he looked at Quentin
1158
00:47:44,822 --> 00:47:47,075
and he looked at
his wife and child
1159
00:47:47,075 --> 00:47:49,118
and he sized up the situation
1160
00:47:49,118 --> 00:47:51,746
and he took the
doll out of my hand
1161
00:47:51,746 --> 00:47:54,082
and handed it back to his
little kid, to his daughter.
1162
00:47:55,416 --> 00:47:57,001
And Quentin goes,
"Harvey, Harvey,
1163
00:47:57,001 --> 00:47:57,585
what are you doing?
1164
00:47:57,585 --> 00:48:00,421
He goes, Michael's gonna
do The Hateful Eight.
1165
00:48:00,421 --> 00:48:03,007
Michael's gonna do The
Hateful Eight with us."
1166
00:48:03,007 --> 00:48:05,718
And Harvey kind of-
kind of stood there
1167
00:48:05,718 --> 00:48:07,345
and his eyes were
shifting back and forth
1168
00:48:07,345 --> 00:48:11,265
and he was thinking on his feet.
1169
00:48:11,265 --> 00:48:12,600
Mm. Mm. Mm. (scoffs)
And, all of a sudden, he went
1170
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,435
and he took the doll
from the little girl
1171
00:48:14,435 --> 00:48:15,603
and gave it back to me.
1172
00:48:15,603 --> 00:48:20,650
And I- I took it and I -- I-
I didn't know what to say.
1173
00:48:20,650 --> 00:48:21,734
I mean it was like...
1174
00:48:21,734 --> 00:48:24,487
And he walked away
right in that moment.
1175
00:48:24,487 --> 00:48:27,907
He gave me the damn the thing
and then he walked away.
1176
00:48:27,907 --> 00:48:30,243
And I remember
going, oh, my God.
1177
00:48:30,243 --> 00:48:32,078
And Quentin was
laughing hysterically.
1178
00:48:32,078 --> 00:48:33,996
When Quentin finds something
funny and he laughs,
1179
00:48:33,996 --> 00:48:35,456
he's got a great laugh.
1180
00:48:35,456 --> 00:48:38,376
And, of course, I gave
the doll back to the girl.
1181
00:48:38,376 --> 00:48:40,419
It was very strange
and I'll never forget it.
1182
00:48:40,419 --> 00:48:42,255
It was like, wow.
1183
00:48:42,255 --> 00:48:43,714
Where did that come from?
1184
00:48:43,714 --> 00:48:45,216
Holy shit.
1185
00:48:45,216 --> 00:48:46,717
You know a year later,
you know,
1186
00:48:46,717 --> 00:48:48,052
the guy's being indicted.
1187
00:49:00,064 --> 00:49:02,275
Quentin loves genre.
1188
00:49:06,070 --> 00:49:09,198
He used to do his
QT Fest in Austin.
1189
00:49:09,198 --> 00:49:12,618
There's a big rule that we
have during this festival.
1190
00:49:12,618 --> 00:49:15,663
You don't laugh to
show that you're superior
1191
00:49:15,663 --> 00:49:19,417
than the movie or how much
cooler you are than the movie,
1192
00:49:19,417 --> 00:49:21,252
because I'm telling
you nobody here is cooler
1193
00:49:21,252 --> 00:49:22,503
than this movie.
1194
00:49:22,503 --> 00:49:24,130
These movies are fuckin' cool.
1195
00:49:24,130 --> 00:49:25,673
For ten days he
would show movies.
1196
00:49:25,673 --> 00:49:27,508
He would have double
features every night,
1197
00:49:27,508 --> 00:49:28,926
some nights triple features,
1198
00:49:28,926 --> 00:49:33,514
and showed Asian films and
genre films from all over.
1199
00:49:33,514 --> 00:49:35,308
Constantly people would
talk movies with him,
1200
00:49:35,308 --> 00:49:36,684
which is what he loves.
1201
00:49:36,684 --> 00:49:38,519
And so I think there
was a period of time
1202
00:49:38,519 --> 00:49:41,314
where Austin was a very
safe haven for Quentin.
1203
00:49:41,314 --> 00:49:42,857
Quentin and Robert
were hanging out a
1204
00:49:42,857 --> 00:49:44,400
lot together at that time.
1205
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,027
I remember Quentin
and Robert took me
1206
00:49:46,027 --> 00:49:48,112
and Edgar right
out for Mexican food.
1207
00:49:48,112 --> 00:49:49,030
And they told us the
1208
00:49:49,030 --> 00:49:51,449
whole concept of Grindhouse.
1209
00:49:51,449 --> 00:49:53,201
Quentin's part of Grindhouse
1210
00:49:53,201 --> 00:49:53,910
is extraordinary.
1211
00:49:53,910 --> 00:49:55,286
I think it's so smart.
1212
00:49:55,286 --> 00:49:57,371
It's like lots of
people have done
1213
00:49:57,371 --> 00:49:58,956
chase films and
lots of people have
1214
00:49:58,956 --> 00:50:00,333
done revenge films.
1215
00:50:00,333 --> 00:50:04,086
And it is such a
remarkable pro woman,
1216
00:50:04,086 --> 00:50:06,964
feminist, but also cinematic,
1217
00:50:06,964 --> 00:50:09,967
a visionary cinematic,
exciting film.
1218
00:50:11,302 --> 00:50:12,136
He rang me and was like,
1219
00:50:12,136 --> 00:50:13,721
Zoë, I've finished the
script for Death Proof.
1220
00:50:13,721 --> 00:50:16,641
He had told me that it was
gonna be about a stunt guy
1221
00:50:16,641 --> 00:50:18,517
whose car was death proof
1222
00:50:18,517 --> 00:50:19,936
and that he killed
women with it.
1223
00:50:21,062 --> 00:50:23,439
Every troupe that you've
seen where a woman is
1224
00:50:23,439 --> 00:50:26,859
brutalized is referred to
1225
00:50:26,859 --> 00:50:28,611
and then he flips
it on its head.
1226
00:50:28,611 --> 00:50:29,987
Hey!
1227
00:50:29,987 --> 00:50:32,239
(screams) Now I want blood.
1228
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:33,532
It's about redemption.
1229
00:50:33,532 --> 00:50:34,575
It's about power.
1230
00:50:34,575 --> 00:50:35,952
It's about feminism.
1231
00:50:35,952 --> 00:50:37,411
(grunts) Oh, you want...
(grunts)
1232
00:50:37,411 --> 00:50:40,748
He makes roles for
women that he wants to see.
1233
00:50:40,748 --> 00:50:43,292
I remember saying to him,
"As long as you cast
1234
00:50:43,292 --> 00:50:45,670
someone in the movie that looks
like me so I can work on it."
1235
00:50:45,670 --> 00:50:47,088
Nice.
1236
00:50:47,088 --> 00:50:48,547
Nice. Thank you.
1237
00:50:48,547 --> 00:50:48,881
Yep.
1238
00:50:48,881 --> 00:50:49,924
Like, it's on you, buddy.
1239
00:50:49,924 --> 00:50:51,175
Like if I'm terrible at this,
1240
00:50:51,175 --> 00:50:54,428
if I fuck it up,
it's your fault.
1241
00:50:54,428 --> 00:50:55,429
(inhales) And he, at
one point, was like,
1242
00:50:55,429 --> 00:50:56,264
"Look, this is my job.
1243
00:50:56,264 --> 00:50:57,682
This is what I do.
1244
00:50:57,682 --> 00:50:59,976
I make good casting choices."
1245
00:50:59,976 --> 00:51:01,978
And he said, "I know you
and I know what I want
1246
00:51:01,978 --> 00:51:03,396
and I know I can get it."
1247
00:51:03,396 --> 00:51:04,647
So you just need to relax
1248
00:51:04,647 --> 00:51:06,148
and know your lines.
1249
00:51:06,148 --> 00:51:06,607
I remember...
1250
00:51:06,607 --> 00:51:08,150
..thinking this is like a,
1251
00:51:08,150 --> 00:51:10,778
yeah, it's a great
night at the theater,
1252
00:51:10,778 --> 00:51:12,238
you know, in nineteen seventy.
1253
00:51:14,740 --> 00:51:17,034
I'd gone in and
interviewed for those
1254
00:51:17,034 --> 00:51:19,829
kinds of movies,
you know, so I knew,
1255
00:51:19,829 --> 00:51:20,287
I knew them.
1256
00:51:20,287 --> 00:51:21,080
I knew what he was doing.
1257
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:22,123
I thought it was pretty great.
1258
00:51:22,123 --> 00:51:24,583
Do I frighten you?
1259
00:51:24,583 --> 00:51:26,085
I was what a stuntman
would look like.
1260
00:51:26,085 --> 00:51:27,628
Big scar, that (indistinct).
1261
00:51:27,628 --> 00:51:28,629
He goes, "Yeah,
let's do the eyes."
1262
00:51:28,629 --> 00:51:29,839
And you mean big, don't you?
and he said,
1263
00:51:29,839 --> 00:51:30,715
"Oh, yeah."
1264
00:51:30,715 --> 00:51:33,134
The old school action hero
and the stunt guy are
1265
00:51:33,134 --> 00:51:34,885
really important to him
and I think this was an
1266
00:51:34,885 --> 00:51:36,303
exciting way for him
to say thank you
1267
00:51:36,303 --> 00:51:38,723
to the stunt people
of- of the industry.
1268
00:51:38,723 --> 00:51:39,515
Now.
1269
00:51:39,515 --> 00:51:41,308
That's that Quentin
magic is- is getting as
1270
00:51:41,308 --> 00:51:42,893
much of it to be as
real as possible.
1271
00:51:42,893 --> 00:51:45,938
(groan) (scream)
We're doing ninety miles
1272
00:51:45,938 --> 00:51:48,441
an hour for a lot of that
stuff down that road.
1273
00:51:48,441 --> 00:51:50,901
She's strapped to
the hood of that car.
1274
00:51:50,901 --> 00:51:52,111
There's nothing you can do.
1275
00:51:52,111 --> 00:51:54,822
If he catches his tire
on the edge of the road
1276
00:51:54,822 --> 00:51:57,825
and we go over,
that's it for Zoë.
1277
00:51:57,825 --> 00:51:59,368
It's not gonna
be a broken arm.
1278
00:51:59,368 --> 00:52:00,119
He came up to me
one time and he's like,
1279
00:52:00,119 --> 00:52:01,078
"Zoë, come and look at this."
1280
00:52:01,078 --> 00:52:02,663
And I sat there and I was
all excited to see it and
1281
00:52:02,663 --> 00:52:04,457
I was watching it
and I was like,
1282
00:52:04,457 --> 00:52:04,999
"Oh, my God.
1283
00:52:04,999 --> 00:52:05,875
It looks amazing."
1284
00:52:05,875 --> 00:52:07,084
I was so over the moon.
1285
00:52:07,084 --> 00:52:08,169
He was like,
"What's wrong with it?"
1286
00:52:08,169 --> 00:52:08,669
And I was like, "What?
1287
00:52:08,669 --> 00:52:09,336
What are you talking about?
1288
00:52:09,336 --> 00:52:10,296
There's nothing
wrong with that.
1289
00:52:10,296 --> 00:52:11,922
That's fuckin' gold."
1290
00:52:11,922 --> 00:52:13,090
He was like, there's
something wrong with it.
1291
00:52:13,090 --> 00:52:13,507
What is it?
1292
00:52:13,507 --> 00:52:16,010
And I was like,
"I don't know, Quentin.
1293
00:52:16,010 --> 00:52:17,636
I think you're
being a bit fussy."
1294
00:52:17,636 --> 00:52:19,805
You know, and he was like,
"What don't we see in the
1295
00:52:19,805 --> 00:52:21,390
whole four minutes?"
1296
00:52:21,390 --> 00:52:22,266
And I was like, "What?
1297
00:52:22,266 --> 00:52:23,934
(gasps) My face."
1298
00:52:23,934 --> 00:52:26,896
And we never once saw
my face because my job for
1299
00:52:26,896 --> 00:52:29,273
so long had been
to know exactly
1300
00:52:29,273 --> 00:52:30,858
where the camera
was so I'd avoid it.
1301
00:52:30,858 --> 00:52:31,734
I'd have an arm up.
1302
00:52:31,734 --> 00:52:34,278
I'd use my hair or
my body or whatever,
1303
00:52:34,278 --> 00:52:35,362
'cause that was my job.
1304
00:52:35,362 --> 00:52:37,948
If you saw my face,
the take was ruined.
1305
00:52:37,948 --> 00:52:38,365
And he was like,
1306
00:52:38,365 --> 00:52:39,492
"I love that
you're that good at it,
1307
00:52:39,492 --> 00:52:41,202
but I need you to
reverse it because the
1308
00:52:41,202 --> 00:52:44,538
whole point of this is
that we can see it's you."
1309
00:52:46,082 --> 00:52:48,751
He loves to help
actors get to a place
1310
00:52:48,751 --> 00:52:51,087
where they can
completely bring it.
1311
00:52:54,465 --> 00:52:56,383
So how's Quentin different
from other directors?
1312
00:52:56,383 --> 00:53:00,596
(laughs)
I never, never fear
1313
00:53:00,596 --> 00:53:02,598
that my joy is
gonna be cut off.
1314
00:53:02,598 --> 00:53:03,224
Wahoo!
1315
00:53:03,224 --> 00:53:08,104
(laughs) Hey, ladies,
that was fun.
1316
00:53:08,104 --> 00:53:12,942
(laughs) Acting in
Death Proof was a blast.
1317
00:53:12,942 --> 00:53:14,652
We had so much fun.
I mean, it's a bar scene.
1318
00:53:14,652 --> 00:53:16,320
Quentin is a bartender.
1319
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:17,905
And there was one
scene where Quentin had
1320
00:53:17,905 --> 00:53:19,240
to do these Irish car bombs.
1321
00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:21,117
And Quentin's like,
"It's got to be real or the foam
1322
00:53:21,117 --> 00:53:22,159
won't be correct."
1323
00:53:22,159 --> 00:53:24,537
And Quentin's like
"I can't be there to see
1324
00:53:24,537 --> 00:53:26,705
how the take looks,
so this is a long take.
1325
00:53:26,705 --> 00:53:27,832
You've- you've got
to do this right,
1326
00:53:27,832 --> 00:53:30,459
but I'm drinking real
Guinness and real Jager.
1327
00:53:30,459 --> 00:53:31,460
You guys can't fuck it up."
1328
00:53:31,460 --> 00:53:31,710
Right.
1329
00:53:31,710 --> 00:53:32,294
Okay, okay.
1330
00:53:32,294 --> 00:53:32,878
Everyone's ready.
1331
00:53:32,878 --> 00:53:33,587
Last shot of the night.
1332
00:53:33,587 --> 00:53:34,839
It's like six-thirty
in the morning. Aah!
1333
00:53:34,839 --> 00:53:37,716
So we're like, boom,
boom, boom, boom.
1334
00:53:37,716 --> 00:53:39,051
And Quentin's like,
how'd it turn out, Jimmy.
1335
00:53:39,051 --> 00:53:41,846
And he's like, actually
that was- that was great.
1336
00:53:41,846 --> 00:53:42,763
Quentin said,
"Cool, cool.
1337
00:53:42,763 --> 00:53:43,806
We should get one for safety,
1338
00:53:43,806 --> 00:53:44,682
right?"
1339
00:53:44,682 --> 00:53:45,391
Boom, boom.
1340
00:53:45,391 --> 00:53:47,101
He drinks another shot,
drinks another shot.
1341
00:53:47,101 --> 00:53:49,103
And I don't know how,
but we started singing this
1342
00:53:49,103 --> 00:53:51,439
song from Blazing Saddles,
where I was like,
1343
00:53:51,439 --> 00:53:53,107
(sings) din-din-din-in,
din-din-din.
1344
00:53:53,107 --> 00:53:53,691
(sings) Throw out your hands,
1345
00:53:53,691 --> 00:53:54,442
Stick out your tush...
(sings) Throw out your hands,
1346
00:53:54,442 --> 00:53:56,861
(speaks) And I just started
doing it to Quentin.
1347
00:53:56,861 --> 00:53:58,320
And he just started laughing.
1348
00:53:58,320 --> 00:53:59,738
And he's like,
"Ah, that was so fun.
1349
00:53:59,738 --> 00:54:00,823
He's like, "Ah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
1350
00:54:00,823 --> 00:54:02,158
Let's- let's just
do another one."
1351
00:54:02,158 --> 00:54:03,909
And we're like,
yeah, but now it's like
1352
00:54:03,909 --> 00:54:05,161
seven fifteen in the morning.
1353
00:54:05,161 --> 00:54:06,579
And so Quentin's like,
1354
00:54:06,579 --> 00:54:08,038
"Action!"
And he goes,
1355
00:54:08,038 --> 00:54:11,750
"pshew" and slams the glass
down and shatters it
1356
00:54:11,750 --> 00:54:15,462
and cuts his hand and falls
off the table laughing.
1357
00:54:15,462 --> 00:54:19,008
And he's like,
"Ah-ha-ha-ha!
1358
00:54:19,008 --> 00:54:20,968
That was so funny.
1359
00:54:20,968 --> 00:54:22,761
Oh, my God!"
1360
00:54:22,761 --> 00:54:25,639
I think we did
about twelve takes.
1361
00:54:25,639 --> 00:54:28,392
Finally at like, maybe
it's eight-forty-five
1362
00:54:28,392 --> 00:54:30,978
in the morning, I was
leaving and Quentin, like,
1363
00:54:30,978 --> 00:54:31,770
grabbed my arm.
He's like,
1364
00:54:31,770 --> 00:54:32,813
"You're stayin' and you're
having a drink with us, right?"
1365
00:54:32,813 --> 00:54:33,731
I said, "Yeah, yeah.
1366
00:54:33,731 --> 00:54:34,315
Let me be right back."
1367
00:54:34,315 --> 00:54:35,274
And I like ran away
1368
00:54:35,274 --> 00:54:37,651
back to the hotel to sleep.
I don't know.
1369
00:54:37,651 --> 00:54:39,403
All I heard was someone
may have been puking
1370
00:54:39,403 --> 00:54:40,487
in a dumpster at eleven o'clock
the next morning.
1371
00:54:42,740 --> 00:54:45,451
when I saw
Death Proof,
1372
00:54:45,451 --> 00:54:47,745
in that scene
1373
00:54:47,745 --> 00:54:49,997
where the girls are
sitting in the car
1374
00:54:49,997 --> 00:54:53,167
driving and talking,
nothing happens.
1375
00:54:53,167 --> 00:54:58,547
They don't say anything that's
really relevant to anything.
1376
00:54:58,547 --> 00:55:02,301
It goes on and it goes on
and I think it goes on for
1377
00:55:02,301 --> 00:55:03,636
forty-five minutes,
1378
00:55:03,636 --> 00:55:07,431
and they are still
driving and talking.
1379
00:55:07,431 --> 00:55:14,980
And I was so smitten by
that moment that it really
1380
00:55:14,980 --> 00:55:20,402
clicked that- that
yeah, despite all the
1381
00:55:20,402 --> 00:55:24,198
extraordinary
entertainment that these
1382
00:55:24,198 --> 00:55:32,248
movies deliver, there is
an allure and a suction
1383
00:55:32,248 --> 00:55:33,999
that pulls you in.
1384
00:55:35,668 --> 00:55:40,506
There is always that, this-
this strength in it.
1385
00:55:40,506 --> 00:55:43,050
(sings) Where the
hell are my keys?
1386
00:55:43,050 --> 00:55:43,968
Here they are.
1387
00:56:09,243 --> 00:56:12,162
I think Quentin's influence
on film is twofold.
1388
00:56:12,162 --> 00:56:14,039
One is that
he's empowered
1389
00:56:14,039 --> 00:56:15,833
a lot of half-ass
filmmakers to make some
1390
00:56:15,833 --> 00:56:17,960
very bad films
because they don't know
1391
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:19,461
how to watch his films.
1392
00:56:19,461 --> 00:56:20,921
They miss the poetry
1393
00:56:20,921 --> 00:56:24,383
and the elegance and the
eloquence of his filmmaking.
1394
00:56:24,383 --> 00:56:26,302
And so they go and they-
they had a lot of,
1395
00:56:26,302 --> 00:56:28,470
you know, bizarre violence
and- and people
1396
00:56:28,470 --> 00:56:32,266
mistreating people and they
miss his passionate humanism.
1397
00:56:32,266 --> 00:56:35,102
Inglourious Basterds,
this is a film that teaches
1398
00:56:35,102 --> 00:56:37,938
filmmakers how to make
movies because the opening
1399
00:56:37,938 --> 00:56:42,735
scene is literally Quentin
saying to everybody,
1400
00:56:42,735 --> 00:56:44,320
"Oh, you think
you know who I am,
1401
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:45,821
and you think you
know what I can do,
1402
00:56:45,821 --> 00:56:47,906
and you think you've
seen a war movie before.
1403
00:56:47,906 --> 00:56:49,325
Well, I'm gonna mess with you
1404
00:56:49,325 --> 00:56:51,702
in a way you haven't
even begun to think."
1405
00:56:54,079 --> 00:56:55,164
Papa!
1406
00:56:55,164 --> 00:56:56,415
That I'm in control.
1407
00:56:56,415 --> 00:56:58,292
Then you were in
the palm of my hands
1408
00:56:58,292 --> 00:57:00,627
and you're on my trip.
1409
00:57:00,627 --> 00:57:02,504
The German general comes in.
1410
00:57:02,504 --> 00:57:05,132
You can't quite figure out
why he's being so friendly.
1411
00:57:08,010 --> 00:57:10,220
And you don't know why
are they so scared?
1412
00:57:13,557 --> 00:57:14,308
And then at a certain point,
1413
00:57:14,308 --> 00:57:16,393
Quentin takes you
under the house.
1414
00:57:18,395 --> 00:57:20,689
And it's really a
horrific moment.
1415
00:57:25,444 --> 00:57:27,363
You know, it's not Robert
Wise with The Haunting
1416
00:57:27,363 --> 00:57:29,156
where he's freaking you
out with camera angles.
1417
00:57:29,156 --> 00:57:31,658
It's not Toby Hooper's, uh,
1418
00:57:31,658 --> 00:57:32,785
Texas Chainsaw where
1419
00:57:32,785 --> 00:57:34,495
he's like shoving
your face in it.
1420
00:57:34,495 --> 00:57:36,163
It's what's not happening.
1421
00:57:36,163 --> 00:57:38,957
A German soldier conducts
a search of a house
1422
00:57:38,957 --> 00:57:41,502
suspected of hiding Jews.
1423
00:57:41,502 --> 00:57:43,003
Where does the hawk look?
1424
00:57:43,003 --> 00:57:44,171
He looks in the barn.
1425
00:57:44,171 --> 00:57:45,214
He looks in the attic.
1426
00:57:45,214 --> 00:57:46,382
He looks in the cellar.
1427
00:57:46,382 --> 00:57:49,885
He looks everywhere
he would hide.
1428
00:57:49,885 --> 00:57:51,804
But there's so many places
that wouldn't even have
1429
00:57:51,804 --> 00:57:54,014
occurred to a hawk to hide.
1430
00:57:54,014 --> 00:57:56,392
No, you're not turning a
corner and suddenly having
1431
00:57:56,392 --> 00:57:57,393
a cat screech.
1432
00:57:57,393 --> 00:57:58,602
And you go, "Oh!"
1433
00:57:58,602 --> 00:57:59,603
It's not cutting.
1434
00:57:59,603 --> 00:58:02,731
It's all intellectual
and it's all unbearable.
1435
00:58:03,941 --> 00:58:06,026
Point out to me the areas
where they're hiding.
1436
00:58:25,629 --> 00:58:28,173
The dialogue is,
1437
00:58:28,173 --> 00:58:29,591
so to say,
1438
00:58:29,591 --> 00:58:31,760
the tiny tip of the iceberg.
1439
00:58:33,137 --> 00:58:34,596
It's a clue.
1440
00:58:39,226 --> 00:58:42,146
I thank you for your time.
1441
00:58:44,606 --> 00:58:46,650
We shan't be bothering
your family any longer.
1442
00:58:47,609 --> 00:58:50,529
So Quentin, in his dialogue,
1443
00:58:50,529 --> 00:58:54,324
doesn't tell you how to say it,
1444
00:58:54,324 --> 00:58:57,995
but he gives you like
a whole abundance
1445
00:58:57,995 --> 00:59:00,497
of elements of what to say.
1446
00:59:00,497 --> 00:59:01,623
...adieu.
1447
00:59:05,252 --> 00:59:10,007
You derive fun from trying
to figure that out.
1448
00:59:10,007 --> 00:59:12,134
That's it.
1449
00:59:12,134 --> 00:59:14,511
(chuckles) And Quentin
starts there and then he
1450
00:59:14,511 --> 00:59:16,472
goes and messes in doing
almost every other way he
1451
00:59:16,472 --> 00:59:18,807
can in terms of
what a war film does.
1452
00:59:18,807 --> 00:59:22,561
(pants) (speaks French)
1453
00:59:22,561 --> 00:59:23,103
I remember the
1454
00:59:23,103 --> 00:59:24,688
first rehearsal from
Inglourious Basterds.
1455
00:59:24,688 --> 00:59:26,690
We all sat around and
everybody had our scripts
1456
00:59:26,690 --> 00:59:27,232
and we had our lines.
1457
00:59:27,232 --> 00:59:28,817
Quentin's like close
your scripts.
1458
00:59:28,817 --> 00:59:30,444
And he's like,
who are you?
1459
00:59:30,444 --> 00:59:31,862
And I was like,
"I'm Donny Donowitz."
1460
00:59:31,862 --> 00:59:34,448
And you had to go
on and on and on
1461
00:59:34,448 --> 00:59:35,741
about your backstory.
1462
00:59:35,741 --> 00:59:36,492
And he's like,
"Well, how did you feel
1463
00:59:36,492 --> 00:59:37,951
when he joined the Basterds?
1464
00:59:37,951 --> 00:59:38,452
What did you think about
1465
00:59:38,452 --> 00:59:40,120
Stiglitz coming
into the Basterds?"
1466
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:41,872
Everybody had to have
their answers ready.
1467
00:59:41,872 --> 00:59:44,124
And there was one
person who didn't.
1468
00:59:44,124 --> 00:59:45,584
You!
1469
00:59:45,584 --> 00:59:46,251
And...
1470
00:59:46,251 --> 00:59:49,129
...you weren't
there the next day.
1471
00:59:49,129 --> 00:59:51,381
And that guy was an extra.
1472
00:59:51,381 --> 00:59:54,343
So I was really,
really training for it.
1473
00:59:54,343 --> 00:59:56,720
And I knew the bat scene,
that was the scene.
1474
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,014
Like, this-It was like
if I do nothing else in
1475
00:59:59,014 --> 01:00:01,558
my life, it is this scene.
1476
01:00:01,558 --> 01:00:03,310
You hear that?
1477
01:00:04,937 --> 01:00:05,729
Yes.
1478
01:00:09,024 --> 01:00:11,777
It's Sergeant Donny Donowitz.
1479
01:00:11,777 --> 01:00:14,363
You might know him
better by his nickname,
1480
01:00:14,363 --> 01:00:16,782
The Bear Jew.
1481
01:00:16,782 --> 01:00:18,784
Quentin just gave me
the most heroic...
1482
01:00:18,784 --> 01:00:22,287
The one they call
"The Bear Jew"...
1483
01:00:22,287 --> 01:00:23,830
...is a Golem!
1484
01:00:23,830 --> 01:00:25,165
He's like you have Brad Pitt
1485
01:00:25,165 --> 01:00:26,416
and Hitler building you up.
1486
01:00:26,416 --> 01:00:28,252
He's like this is
gonna be your moment.
1487
01:00:28,252 --> 01:00:29,836
And, you know, I was gonna
come out of this tunnel.
1488
01:00:29,836 --> 01:00:31,296
Quentin was like,
"I got the best tunnel.
1489
01:00:31,296 --> 01:00:32,339
You're gonna be tapping
with a bat and
1490
01:00:32,339 --> 01:00:33,465
you're gonna come out."
1491
01:00:33,465 --> 01:00:35,717
Well, I got some weights
and we set up a punching bag,
1492
01:00:35,717 --> 01:00:37,803
so that Brad was
doing the whole scene
1493
01:00:37,803 --> 01:00:40,180
and I was in the back
and I was like lifting weights
1494
01:00:40,180 --> 01:00:41,974
and doing pull-ups, like,
I wanted to be ready like-
1495
01:00:41,974 --> 01:00:42,724
like an animal.
1496
01:00:42,724 --> 01:00:44,142
And Quentin was like,
all right,
1497
01:00:44,142 --> 01:00:44,935
we're gettin' to
you after lunch.
1498
01:00:44,935 --> 01:00:45,018
We're gettin' to you.
1499
01:00:45,018 --> 01:00:45,978
And then by the end,
he's like,
1500
01:00:45,978 --> 01:00:46,979
we're gonna do you next,
so be ready, ready.
1501
01:00:46,979 --> 01:00:48,939
And he was like,
well, that's a wrap.
1502
01:00:48,939 --> 01:00:49,565
And I was like (grunt).
1503
01:00:49,565 --> 01:00:50,941
And I would, like, sit
there at the end of day
1504
01:00:50,941 --> 01:00:54,152
and like (groan) like
getting all made up and ready,
1505
01:00:54,152 --> 01:00:55,529
pumped up, ready to go,
1506
01:00:55,529 --> 01:00:56,989
and then it would be like
the night at the gym and
1507
01:00:56,989 --> 01:00:58,991
in the morning the gym,
and then ready for it.
1508
01:00:58,991 --> 01:01:01,994
And Quentin did that to me
for about four or five days.
1509
01:01:01,994 --> 01:01:04,830
He finally, and he just like
had me like a caged animal.
1510
01:01:04,830 --> 01:01:06,415
He was, of course,
doing it on purpose.
1511
01:01:12,796 --> 01:01:14,339
And when I came out
with that bat,
1512
01:01:14,339 --> 01:01:16,425
I was so, so ready.
1513
01:01:16,425 --> 01:01:18,885
And then I just started
wailing on that dummy.
1514
01:01:18,885 --> 01:01:21,221
(grunts) I'm going
completely crazy.
1515
01:01:21,221 --> 01:01:22,723
I mean I think I lost my voice
1516
01:01:22,723 --> 01:01:24,308
for a couple days after that.
1517
01:01:27,102 --> 01:01:29,563
I know that Quentin really
wanted,
1518
01:01:29,563 --> 01:01:34,026
um, authentic, um, actors
to be really German,
1519
01:01:34,026 --> 01:01:35,277
to be really French.
1520
01:01:35,277 --> 01:01:37,404
Um, he spent months
and months and months in
1521
01:01:37,404 --> 01:01:39,156
Germany trying to find
the right people,
1522
01:01:39,156 --> 01:01:42,034
especially for Christoph
Waltz's character.
1523
01:01:47,247 --> 01:01:49,625
And I know that he
had said himself,
1524
01:01:49,625 --> 01:01:51,460
that if he wouldn't
have found Christoph,
1525
01:01:51,460 --> 01:01:53,545
he wouldn't have been
able to make this film.
1526
01:02:03,263 --> 01:02:05,891
Quentin was very
secretive about,
1527
01:02:05,891 --> 01:02:07,601
uh, Christoph's character.
1528
01:02:07,601 --> 01:02:09,853
Uh, even at the
read-throughs we didn't
1529
01:02:09,853 --> 01:02:12,898
get to really see
his performance.
1530
01:02:17,903 --> 01:02:19,446
In the theatre
when Christoph comes in
1531
01:02:19,446 --> 01:02:22,324
and confronts Bridget,
1532
01:02:22,324 --> 01:02:24,493
we never rehearsed that scene,
1533
01:02:24,493 --> 01:02:27,162
so it was a complete
surprise to me when
1534
01:02:27,162 --> 01:02:30,332
he started going crazy on the
laugh and- and the way he
1535
01:02:30,332 --> 01:02:31,249
did that scene.
1536
01:02:35,754 --> 01:02:48,892
(laughs) And I think it
kind of shows in my face.
1537
01:02:48,892 --> 01:02:50,727
Christoph just found
this character.
1538
01:02:50,727 --> 01:02:54,439
He had a really specific
idea of how he wanted to
1539
01:02:54,439 --> 01:02:58,151
play it and together with
Quentin they just had this
1540
01:02:58,151 --> 01:03:01,822
great bond and it got bigger
and bigger and bigger.
1541
01:03:01,822 --> 01:03:05,701
There is definitely an
exuberance about the
1542
01:03:05,701 --> 01:03:07,953
medium that he spreads.
1543
01:03:07,953 --> 01:03:12,332
And there is no, no
inoculation against this bug.
1544
01:03:12,332 --> 01:03:15,043
You get infected whether
you want to or not.
1545
01:03:15,043 --> 01:03:18,463
(laughs) Well, I don't
know whether you want to
1546
01:03:18,463 --> 01:03:20,716
or not, because
that's part of the,
1547
01:03:20,716 --> 01:03:25,095
part of the infection that
you do want to get infected.
1548
01:03:25,095 --> 01:03:26,930
It's like going to
a whore house to
1549
01:03:26,930 --> 01:03:29,516
get infected with the syphilis.
1550
01:03:29,516 --> 01:03:31,727
I've never been killed on film,
1551
01:03:31,727 --> 01:03:34,020
so as the day approached,
I was getting more and more
1552
01:03:34,020 --> 01:03:35,689
nervous about it.
1553
01:03:35,689 --> 01:03:38,483
I'm in my trailer and Quentin
comes in and he goes,
1554
01:03:38,483 --> 01:03:40,736
"Well, I don't really
trust Christoph to
1555
01:03:40,736 --> 01:03:43,155
kill you, so I'm
gonna do it myself."
1556
01:03:43,155 --> 01:03:45,157
And he was like,
"Well, look at this.
1557
01:03:45,157 --> 01:03:49,536
They cut off SS sleeves
that fit me and I'm gonna
1558
01:03:49,536 --> 01:03:52,330
put them on and then
I'm just gonna be on top of
1559
01:03:52,330 --> 01:03:53,457
you and I'm gonna
be strangling you,
1560
01:03:53,457 --> 01:03:55,709
and it's gonna be great."
1561
01:03:55,709 --> 01:03:56,668
I was like, " Oh, oh.
1562
01:03:56,668 --> 01:03:57,502
Yeah, that's great.
1563
01:03:57,502 --> 01:03:58,170
Sure.
1564
01:03:58,170 --> 01:03:59,004
Fair enough.
1565
01:03:59,004 --> 01:03:59,421
Why not?"
1566
01:03:59,421 --> 01:04:01,715
And- and now I'm
really panicking.
1567
01:04:01,715 --> 01:04:04,760
And so we know we do the
stunt and like I'm finally
1568
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:08,013
on the ground and I just
have this to the end of
1569
01:04:08,013 --> 01:04:11,558
my life vision of Quentin,
who by all means is three
1570
01:04:11,558 --> 01:04:15,312
times Christoph's size
and his hands are three times
1571
01:04:15,312 --> 01:04:17,731
Christoph's hands on top of me,
1572
01:04:17,731 --> 01:04:20,233
you know, with put-on
sleeves that are three
1573
01:04:20,233 --> 01:04:22,903
sizes too small for
him strangling me.
1574
01:04:22,903 --> 01:04:26,073
And I was just like,
well, at least if I die,
1575
01:04:26,073 --> 01:04:28,492
it's Quentin Tarantino
who killed me today.
1576
01:04:28,492 --> 01:04:29,493
Ooh!
1577
01:04:29,493 --> 01:04:36,249
(gasps) I guess he
really gets in there.
1578
01:04:36,249 --> 01:04:37,709
Quentin is very hands-on.
1579
01:04:37,709 --> 01:04:39,169
He sits next to camera.
1580
01:04:39,169 --> 01:04:41,505
Usually directors
sit at video village,
1581
01:04:41,505 --> 01:04:43,006
sometimes in a different room.
1582
01:04:43,006 --> 01:04:45,175
You feel like he's involved,
1583
01:04:45,175 --> 01:04:47,719
he's there, he's kind of
holding your hand a little bit.
1584
01:04:47,719 --> 01:04:51,723
At the end of the day, you
feel like he sees everything.
1585
01:04:51,723 --> 01:04:54,434
He laughs when there's
like a joke in the scene.
1586
01:04:54,434 --> 01:04:56,561
He's always like--
Sometimes you have to cut
1587
01:04:56,561 --> 01:04:58,021
because we can
hear Quentin laughing.
1588
01:04:58,021 --> 01:04:59,439
It's- It's pretty great.
1589
01:05:01,608 --> 01:05:03,777
(laughs) Hi, Sally.
1590
01:05:03,777 --> 01:05:05,403
(laughs) Any time you get
a take and he likes it,
1591
01:05:05,403 --> 01:05:07,906
he's like, "All right,
another one to shout to Sally.
1592
01:05:07,906 --> 01:05:12,369
(laughs) Hi, Sally.
(chuckles)
1593
01:05:12,369 --> 01:05:15,038
He called me right after
he met Sally Menke
1594
01:05:15,038 --> 01:05:17,290
and he said,
I've met this gal.
1595
01:05:17,290 --> 01:05:20,544
I think we're gonna work on
all our movies together.
1596
01:05:20,544 --> 01:05:23,380
Look into the camera
and tell my lonely editor
1597
01:05:23,380 --> 01:05:25,131
stuck in Los Angeles
1598
01:05:25,131 --> 01:05:27,259
that's in her room
all by herself, hello.
1599
01:05:27,259 --> 01:05:28,593
Her name is Sally.
1600
01:05:28,593 --> 01:05:30,762
Hello, Sally.
1601
01:05:30,762 --> 01:05:32,013
And welcome to
happy first day.
1602
01:05:32,013 --> 01:05:33,348
And happy first day!
1603
01:05:33,348 --> 01:05:36,184
Now all together, go.
1604
01:05:36,184 --> 01:05:39,896
Hello, Sally and
happy first day!
1605
01:05:39,896 --> 01:05:41,481
Sally Menke, unfortunately,
1606
01:05:41,481 --> 01:05:43,817
is not with us anymore.
1607
01:05:43,817 --> 01:05:47,028
But she was Quentin's
major contributing editor
1608
01:05:47,028 --> 01:05:49,865
for all of his movies
for a while there.
1609
01:05:49,865 --> 01:05:57,122
She is my only true
genuine collaborator
1610
01:05:57,122 --> 01:06:01,334
from beginning to end
and that's the way it is.
1611
01:06:01,334 --> 01:06:02,794
They just knew
each other so well,
1612
01:06:02,794 --> 01:06:05,171
it felt like kind of
their unspoken language.
1613
01:06:05,171 --> 01:06:07,883
She was one of those
women that could be like,
1614
01:06:07,883 --> 01:06:09,217
"You're being self-indulgent."
1615
01:06:09,217 --> 01:06:11,970
And he'd be like, "Fine!"
1616
01:06:11,970 --> 01:06:16,808
I think he could hear Sally's
voice when he's shooting.
1617
01:06:16,808 --> 01:06:19,102
And so tonight I want
to thank my co-writer,
1618
01:06:19,102 --> 01:06:22,063
Sally Menke.
1619
01:06:22,063 --> 01:06:25,358
She was his cheerleader
1620
01:06:25,358 --> 01:06:27,652
and his editor
all rolled into one.
1621
01:06:27,652 --> 01:06:28,778
Hi, Sally.
1622
01:06:30,697 --> 01:06:31,531
Hi, Sally.
1623
01:06:31,990 --> 01:06:33,283
Hi, Sally.
1624
01:06:33,283 --> 01:06:33,992
Cut!
1625
01:06:33,992 --> 01:06:36,077
The Basterds will be
waiting from you.
1626
01:06:36,077 --> 01:06:37,704
(to self/Sally)
Fucking, fucky, fuck.
1627
01:06:37,704 --> 01:06:38,705
So, close.
1628
01:06:38,705 --> 01:06:40,457
Hello, Sally. So close.
1629
01:06:56,932 --> 01:07:01,019
The resonance of his
cinema is to push you
1630
01:07:01,019 --> 01:07:03,730
with every tool at his
disposal and he's a master
1631
01:07:03,730 --> 01:07:05,357
at most of those tools.
1632
01:07:05,357 --> 01:07:08,109
I remember that ending
watching it and my parents,
1633
01:07:08,109 --> 01:07:09,319
my parents were crying.
1634
01:07:09,319 --> 01:07:10,570
It was just this incredible,
1635
01:07:10,570 --> 01:07:12,030
incredible moment.
1636
01:07:12,030 --> 01:07:18,286
I get to
be the Jew that shot Hitler.
1637
01:07:18,286 --> 01:07:19,079
It's the greatest.
1638
01:07:19,079 --> 01:07:20,664
Everywhere I go,
people recognize me for
1639
01:07:20,664 --> 01:07:22,499
The Bear Jew, every country.
1640
01:07:22,499 --> 01:07:23,291
It's incredible.
1641
01:07:23,291 --> 01:07:28,463
I think
the people who think that
1642
01:07:28,463 --> 01:07:31,049
Inglourious Basterds goes
off the rails when Hitler
1643
01:07:31,049 --> 01:07:35,553
dies misses that we all
are watching the movie and
1644
01:07:35,553 --> 01:07:37,305
we all know we're
watching a movie.
1645
01:07:37,305 --> 01:07:38,515
He didn't change history,
1646
01:07:38,515 --> 01:07:43,603
nor does he ever
claim to do that.
1647
01:07:43,603 --> 01:07:48,358
But he's doing
exactly the- the- the
1648
01:07:48,358 --> 01:07:57,826
quintessential task of
what storytelling is all about.
1649
01:07:57,826 --> 01:07:59,577
What if?
1650
01:07:59,577 --> 01:08:03,164
I've never had the desire
to be part of repeating my
1651
01:08:03,164 --> 01:08:05,417
country's history
over and over and over,
1652
01:08:05,417 --> 01:08:07,669
so the set seemed
really refreshing.
1653
01:08:07,669 --> 01:08:10,588
(laughs) And, uh,
only Quentin Tarantino gets
1654
01:08:10,588 --> 01:08:12,632
away with stuff like that.
1655
01:08:12,632 --> 01:08:14,384
I mean, what a
ballsy movie to make.
1656
01:08:14,384 --> 01:08:17,220
That guy makes a movie,
that's a movie called
1657
01:08:17,220 --> 01:08:18,805
Inglourious Basterds where
the bastards aren't really
1658
01:08:18,805 --> 01:08:20,890
in it that much, a war
movie where there's almost
1659
01:08:20,890 --> 01:08:24,227
no war, and it's two-thirds
in a foreign language.
1660
01:08:24,227 --> 01:08:26,438
It's just like, how
do you do that?
1661
01:08:26,438 --> 01:08:27,814
How do you have the
confidence and the balls
1662
01:08:27,814 --> 01:08:30,817
to do that coming off
of what was the biggest
1663
01:08:30,817 --> 01:08:32,527
commercial failure
of your career?
1664
01:08:32,527 --> 01:08:33,737
I'm alive.
1665
01:08:33,737 --> 01:08:36,573
(speaks German) He's like,
I'm gonna do something
1666
01:08:36,573 --> 01:08:37,824
bold and brave and different.
1667
01:08:37,824 --> 01:08:39,284
Then he does it
again with Django.
1668
01:08:39,284 --> 01:08:40,827
And everyone's
still doubting him.
1669
01:08:40,827 --> 01:08:42,579
How can you do a slavery
movie at Christmas?
1670
01:08:42,579 --> 01:08:43,621
And he said, watch this.
1671
01:08:43,621 --> 01:08:44,998
It's his biggest movie ever.
1672
01:08:58,678 --> 01:08:59,304
Everyone is standing
1673
01:08:59,304 --> 01:09:01,139
in the Quentin Tarantino
line to work.
1674
01:09:01,139 --> 01:09:02,307
I don't care who they are.
1675
01:09:02,307 --> 01:09:04,768
I don't care how
big your star shines
1676
01:09:04,768 --> 01:09:06,353
and what you do
at the box office.
1677
01:09:06,353 --> 01:09:11,066
You are still Quentin
Tarantino deprived
1678
01:09:11,066 --> 01:09:12,692
if you haven't gotten a
chance to work with him.
1679
01:09:12,692 --> 01:09:15,862
(indistinct) . ..your black ass.
1680
01:09:15,862 --> 01:09:20,033
(laughs) I get a chance to
meet Quentin Tarantino.
1681
01:09:21,159 --> 01:09:22,619
Hey, white boy.
1682
01:09:22,619 --> 01:09:25,246
I said, hey, white boy.
1683
01:09:25,246 --> 01:09:26,414
Shut up, black.
1684
01:09:26,414 --> 01:09:28,124
You ain't got nothing'
to say I want to hear.
1685
01:09:28,124 --> 01:09:36,049
You make unknowns,
celebrities, stars.
1686
01:09:36,049 --> 01:09:38,843
But you turn stars
into legends.
1687
01:09:38,843 --> 01:09:45,308
I said, I know
the dude needs to be able
1688
01:09:45,308 --> 01:09:46,017
to ride his horse.
1689
01:09:46,017 --> 01:09:47,352
I got my own horse at the crib.
1690
01:09:47,352 --> 01:09:48,228
It'll be cool.
1691
01:09:48,228 --> 01:09:51,564
And not only did he allow me
to take on the character,
1692
01:09:51,564 --> 01:09:53,024
but I got a chance
to ride my own
1693
01:09:53,024 --> 01:09:54,734
horse in the film.
1694
01:09:54,734 --> 01:09:56,611
My valet, Django.
1695
01:09:56,611 --> 01:09:59,656
These are our horses,
Tony and Fritz.
1696
01:09:59,656 --> 01:10:03,284
We had Bruce there,
1697
01:10:03,284 --> 01:10:05,954
Bruce Dern, who's done
every western that's
1698
01:10:05,954 --> 01:10:07,622
ever been made for television,
1699
01:10:07,622 --> 01:10:10,083
played every bad guy
you could imagine.
1700
01:10:10,083 --> 01:10:14,295
Django, Django, you got sin,
1701
01:10:14,295 --> 01:10:16,172
Django.
1702
01:10:16,172 --> 01:10:18,842
The boy's got sin.
1703
01:10:18,842 --> 01:10:21,094
When you've watched this man
for however many year, what,
1704
01:10:21,094 --> 01:10:24,472
thirty, forty, fifty
years of his career,
1705
01:10:24,472 --> 01:10:25,431
and to step in.
1706
01:10:25,431 --> 01:10:27,350
And that's what you
need, you know?
1707
01:10:27,350 --> 01:10:30,812
No political correctness.
1708
01:10:30,812 --> 01:10:33,940
No softening the blows.
1709
01:10:33,940 --> 01:10:36,151
I want you to burn a
runaway "R" right here on
1710
01:10:36,151 --> 01:10:39,195
his cheek, and the girl, too.
1711
01:10:39,195 --> 01:10:42,365
(gasps) Getting into the role
and working with Quentin,
1712
01:10:42,365 --> 01:10:44,159
Quentin was, especially
in the beginning
1713
01:10:44,159 --> 01:10:45,285
because he didn't know me.
1714
01:10:45,285 --> 01:10:46,453
You know, he knew Samuel.
1715
01:10:46,453 --> 01:10:47,370
He knew Christoph.
1716
01:10:47,370 --> 01:10:48,955
And so he was like, "Listen.
1717
01:10:48,955 --> 01:10:50,665
You know, we really got
to put the work in."
1718
01:10:50,665 --> 01:10:52,667
And so I would come in
and I was doing my lines
1719
01:10:52,667 --> 01:10:54,627
really sort of Jim Brownish,
1720
01:10:54,627 --> 01:10:56,629
like, you know,
like I was already the guy.
1721
01:10:56,629 --> 01:10:57,839
And I remember him going, "Uh,
1722
01:10:57,839 --> 01:10:58,631
let's take a break."
1723
01:10:58,631 --> 01:10:59,257
He takes me in the room.
1724
01:10:59,257 --> 01:11:00,383
He says, "Hey, listen.
1725
01:11:00,383 --> 01:11:01,259
Listen.
1726
01:11:01,259 --> 01:11:02,635
You- you- you got
to be a slave."
1727
01:11:02,635 --> 01:11:03,428
I said, "What do you
mean?" He said,
1728
01:11:03,428 --> 01:11:06,389
"You- you have to be a slave."
1729
01:11:06,389 --> 01:11:07,640
And I said,
" I- I don't get it."
1730
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:10,727
He says, "You're
already too macho
1731
01:11:10,727 --> 01:11:12,687
and you're too in control."
1732
01:11:15,398 --> 01:11:17,859
The Louis bag and the Range
Rover you're driving,
1733
01:11:17,859 --> 01:11:19,527
all of this, and so
you have to come in and
1734
01:11:19,527 --> 01:11:21,613
strip that all the way,
'cause I don't want this
1735
01:11:21,613 --> 01:11:25,533
to be a mistake that if I
hired someone who is like
1736
01:11:25,533 --> 01:11:27,952
yourself or some other
person who's well known,
1737
01:11:27,952 --> 01:11:30,121
that you couldn't break
away from your persona and
1738
01:11:30,121 --> 01:11:32,498
that's why I work with
the people that I work with.
1739
01:11:35,001 --> 01:11:37,795
And so the next day,
I left all that at the crib
1740
01:11:37,795 --> 01:11:43,593
and sunk into that- that
type of person who was
1741
01:11:43,593 --> 01:11:47,305
strong on the inside, but
afraid to allow it to come out
1742
01:11:47,305 --> 01:11:50,642
because you would be murdered.
1743
01:11:50,642 --> 01:11:53,061
Imagine if anyone here
saw someone you love and you
1744
01:11:53,061 --> 01:11:57,440
can't say nothing
'cause they'll kill you both.
1745
01:11:57,440 --> 01:12:02,028
(sings) Broomhilda, come
on and get on my horse.
1746
01:12:02,028 --> 01:12:08,034
Broomhilda (beatboxing...)
That was powerful.
1747
01:12:08,034 --> 01:12:11,204
Even in the rehearsal,
I had to do certain things
1748
01:12:11,204 --> 01:12:14,123
in order to get the fear
out of my character
1749
01:12:14,123 --> 01:12:16,668
when it came to Sam because
he came in like this.
1750
01:12:16,668 --> 01:12:18,670
He howls to everything.
1751
01:12:18,670 --> 01:12:20,880
I can literally say he's
1752
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:23,383
probably the best actor
I've worked with.
1753
01:12:23,383 --> 01:12:24,926
You scaring me.
1754
01:12:24,926 --> 01:12:27,720
(gasps) Why is it
I'm scarin' you?
1755
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:30,890
Because you're scary.
1756
01:12:30,890 --> 01:12:31,975
Oh, fuck.
1757
01:12:31,975 --> 01:12:34,060
Oh, fuck, it's incredible.
1758
01:12:34,060 --> 01:12:35,979
I told Quentin Stephen
was gonna
1759
01:12:35,979 --> 01:12:37,063
have his fans.
1760
01:12:37,063 --> 01:12:40,149
(chuckles) Stephen could
read, write, count,
1761
01:12:40,149 --> 01:12:41,276
do all those things,
1762
01:12:41,276 --> 01:12:42,235
and he had a disguise.
1763
01:12:42,235 --> 01:12:44,696
He disguised himself
as a feeble old man
1764
01:12:44,696 --> 01:12:46,239
and he wasn't.
1765
01:12:46,239 --> 01:12:48,366
And he realized that
inside the confines of
1766
01:12:48,366 --> 01:12:50,618
Candyland, he was king.
1767
01:12:50,618 --> 01:12:53,288
Even when Calvin was home,
he was king.
1768
01:12:53,288 --> 01:12:55,206
He's gonna stay
in the big house?
1769
01:12:55,206 --> 01:12:56,916
Stephen, he's a slaver.
1770
01:12:56,916 --> 01:12:57,917
It's different.
1771
01:12:57,917 --> 01:12:59,335
In the big house?
1772
01:12:59,335 --> 01:13:00,587
The character is
the characters.
1773
01:13:00,587 --> 01:13:01,170
And that's why I...
1774
01:13:01,170 --> 01:13:01,796
...think people love
1775
01:13:01,796 --> 01:13:02,839
his characters is that
1776
01:13:02,839 --> 01:13:04,382
they are honest,
whether you like them,
1777
01:13:04,382 --> 01:13:05,800
whether you agree with them
or disagree with them,
1778
01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:07,093
they are who they are.
1779
01:13:07,093 --> 01:13:08,303
The film has
already sparked
1780
01:13:08,303 --> 01:13:11,639
controversy over its repeated
use of the "N" word.
1781
01:13:11,639 --> 01:13:14,434
And now, Director, Spike Lee
says he won't go to see it.
1782
01:13:14,434 --> 01:13:16,060
Spike, (chuckles)
Spike Lee's,
1783
01:13:16,060 --> 01:13:17,687
you know and
I respect Spike Lee,
1784
01:13:17,687 --> 01:13:20,606
you know, but Spike
Lee's that guy.
1785
01:13:20,606 --> 01:13:25,111
You know, it's like
Spike Lee is like the-
1786
01:13:25,111 --> 01:13:29,991
the old dude with the nice
little house that has the grass.
1787
01:13:29,991 --> 01:13:32,535
Don't you get on my grass,
you little motherfuckers.
1788
01:13:34,871 --> 01:13:37,999
That's my grass,
every blade of it is.
1789
01:13:38,541 --> 01:13:40,418
Little motherfuckers.
1790
01:13:40,418 --> 01:13:41,377
You know.
1791
01:13:41,377 --> 01:13:42,670
You're not gonna get
1792
01:13:42,670 --> 01:13:44,464
Samuel Jackson to say
1793
01:13:44,464 --> 01:13:48,009
nigger, nigger, nigger if he
feels he's demeaning anybody.
1794
01:13:48,009 --> 01:13:50,011
You know, I mean Samuel
Jackson's gonna turn to
1795
01:13:50,011 --> 01:13:51,804
you and tell you where to go.
1796
01:13:51,804 --> 01:13:54,098
You take Twelve Years A Slave,
1797
01:13:54,098 --> 01:13:56,893
which is supposedly
made by an "auteur",
1798
01:13:56,893 --> 01:14:00,146
so Steve McQueen's very
different from Quentin.
1799
01:14:00,146 --> 01:14:03,900
So when you have a song
that says nigger three
1800
01:14:03,900 --> 01:14:06,194
hundred times in it
and nobody says shit.
1801
01:14:06,194 --> 01:14:07,236
(sings) Nigger run,
1802
01:14:07,236 --> 01:14:11,699
nigger flew, nigger tore
his shirt in two Run,
1803
01:14:11,699 --> 01:14:14,035
run or the pattyroller
will get you Run nigger
1804
01:14:14,035 --> 01:14:15,495
run Well you better get away
1805
01:14:15,495 --> 01:14:18,164
So, it's okay for him
to use it because
1806
01:14:18,164 --> 01:14:22,543
he's artistically attacking
the system or the way people
1807
01:14:22,543 --> 01:14:24,212
think and feel in a way.
1808
01:14:24,212 --> 01:14:27,423
Then Quentin's just doing
it to just scrape the
1809
01:14:27,423 --> 01:14:28,716
blackboard with his nails.
1810
01:14:28,716 --> 01:14:30,468
You know, and that's not true.
1811
01:14:30,468 --> 01:14:32,929
There is no dishonesty in
anything that he writes
1812
01:14:32,929 --> 01:14:35,556
or how people talk,
feel, or speak.
1813
01:14:35,556 --> 01:14:37,183
There you go!
1814
01:14:37,183 --> 01:14:39,185
The consumer, especially
black consumers,
1815
01:14:39,185 --> 01:14:41,270
they understand
that it's a movie.
1816
01:14:41,270 --> 01:14:44,190
Sometimes we get a little
overboard with our
1817
01:14:44,190 --> 01:14:46,943
sensitivity level with-
with everything,
1818
01:14:46,943 --> 01:14:49,278
because nobody was really
payin' attention to that.
1819
01:14:49,278 --> 01:14:51,406
They were comin' to see
their favorite director
1820
01:14:51,406 --> 01:14:53,991
direct some of their
favorite stars.
1821
01:14:53,991 --> 01:14:56,577
If it's Quentin, if it's Samuel,
1822
01:14:56,577 --> 01:14:58,704
if it's Leo, it's Christoph,
1823
01:14:58,704 --> 01:15:01,124
Carry Washington, and myself,
1824
01:15:01,124 --> 01:15:04,669
I- I just find it hard
for us to fuck that up.
1825
01:15:04,669 --> 01:15:06,629
All three are champions.
1826
01:15:07,630 --> 01:15:09,924
Samson's a champion.
1827
01:15:09,924 --> 01:15:11,384
Them other two pretty good.
1828
01:15:13,845 --> 01:15:15,430
Calvin-- You know we live
in a very politically
1829
01:15:15,430 --> 01:15:18,182
correct society now to
where almost everything,
1830
01:15:18,182 --> 01:15:20,101
it almost chokes
art a little bit.
1831
01:15:21,853 --> 01:15:24,605
That's just the way it was.
1832
01:15:24,605 --> 01:15:26,482
What's your name, boy?
1833
01:15:26,482 --> 01:15:28,860
His name is Django Freeman.
1834
01:15:28,860 --> 01:15:30,820
His characters are
a part of him.
1835
01:15:30,820 --> 01:15:31,863
It's how he creates.
1836
01:15:31,863 --> 01:15:33,573
But they're living breathing
characters to him.
1837
01:15:33,573 --> 01:15:36,993
There's a great story that
his mom told me about when
1838
01:15:36,993 --> 01:15:39,871
he was a little boy and he
was playing with his GI Joes
1839
01:15:39,871 --> 01:15:41,414
and he was using foul language.
1840
01:15:41,414 --> 01:15:43,332
And I think it was
like, you know,
1841
01:15:43,332 --> 01:15:44,542
"Fuck you. Die."
1842
01:15:44,542 --> 01:15:45,501
And you know, like, whatever.
1843
01:15:45,501 --> 01:15:47,086
And she came around the
corner and she was like,
1844
01:15:47,086 --> 01:15:48,629
Quentin, don't you
use that language.
1845
01:15:48,629 --> 01:15:49,964
And he said,
"It's not me, Mom.
1846
01:15:49,964 --> 01:15:50,631
It's just the guys.
1847
01:15:50,631 --> 01:15:52,300
That's how they talk."
1848
01:15:54,051 --> 01:15:55,553
I count two guns, Nigger.
1849
01:15:59,557 --> 01:16:01,726
You said in seventy-six
years on this plantation,
1850
01:16:01,726 --> 01:16:04,479
you've seen all manner
of shit done to niggers,
1851
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:06,105
but I notice...
1852
01:16:06,105 --> 01:16:07,398
you didn't mention kneecapping.
1853
01:16:07,398 --> 01:16:09,150
Oh, God!
1854
01:16:09,150 --> 01:16:10,610
Motherfucker!
1855
01:16:10,610 --> 01:16:13,863
Leonardo DiCaprio had a problem
saying the word nigger.
1856
01:16:13,863 --> 01:16:14,655
"Pal.
1857
01:16:14,655 --> 01:16:15,990
(inhales) Pal, it's just.
1858
01:16:15,990 --> 01:16:18,534
(exhales) It's tough
for me to say this."
1859
01:16:18,534 --> 01:16:20,495
And, uh, I remember
Samuel Jackson going,
1860
01:16:20,495 --> 01:16:21,746
Get over it, motherfucker.
1861
01:16:21,746 --> 01:16:23,080
This is just another
Tuesday, motherfucker.
1862
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:24,624
I don't give a fuck about
these motherfuckers.
1863
01:16:24,624 --> 01:16:26,250
Look at- look at
who I am, motherfucker.
1864
01:16:26,250 --> 01:16:28,336
Fuck! And it was like...
1865
01:16:28,336 --> 01:16:29,629
You know, and I said, "Yeah."
1866
01:16:29,629 --> 01:16:31,255
I said, "Leo, Leo,
we're- we're not friends."
1867
01:16:31,255 --> 01:16:32,798
I said, "This is
just another Thursday.
1868
01:16:32,798 --> 01:16:35,051
This is your property.
1869
01:16:35,051 --> 01:16:36,135
These aren't humans.
1870
01:16:36,135 --> 01:16:37,470
These are your property."
1871
01:16:41,182 --> 01:16:42,642
And when Leo came
in the next day,
1872
01:16:42,642 --> 01:16:44,268
it was literally like, I
was like, "What's up, Leo?
1873
01:16:45,895 --> 01:16:46,854
What's up fam?"
1874
01:16:47,980 --> 01:16:48,981
He didn't speak.
1875
01:16:49,607 --> 01:16:50,983
You won't mind me
handling this nigger
1876
01:16:50,983 --> 01:16:52,568
anyway I see fit.
1877
01:16:53,611 --> 01:16:55,154
He's your nigger.
1878
01:16:59,325 --> 01:17:03,371
Mr. Stonesipher, let
Marshall and the bitches
1879
01:17:03,371 --> 01:17:06,165
send D'Artagnan
to nigger heaven.
1880
01:17:06,165 --> 01:17:09,293
Quentin allowed us to
transport back to that
1881
01:17:09,293 --> 01:17:12,588
time and it was- it was
really real. It was intent.
1882
01:17:12,588 --> 01:17:17,343
Leonardo had that gigantic
sequence where he becomes
1883
01:17:17,343 --> 01:17:20,346
wise to what Schultz
and Django are up to.
1884
01:17:20,346 --> 01:17:24,350
He brought his hand down
and smashed the glass.
1885
01:17:24,350 --> 01:17:28,437
So now blood is running
down his hand.
1886
01:17:28,437 --> 01:17:31,065
He's kind of getting white.
1887
01:17:31,065 --> 01:17:32,483
Leo never breaks.
1888
01:17:32,483 --> 01:17:33,901
He goes all the way
through 'cause he knows
1889
01:17:33,901 --> 01:17:35,027
it's a great take.
1890
01:17:35,027 --> 01:17:37,697
Where were we?
1891
01:17:37,697 --> 01:17:41,033
Quentin's right there,
right at the lens next to him,
1892
01:17:41,033 --> 01:17:42,618
not in some video village.
1893
01:17:42,618 --> 01:17:43,995
In fact there are no monitors
1894
01:17:43,995 --> 01:17:46,831
on a Quentin Tarantino movie.
There is no video village.
1895
01:17:46,831 --> 01:17:49,375
And you can see it
in the performances.
1896
01:17:49,375 --> 01:17:54,088
Broomhilda here is my
property and I can choose
1897
01:17:54,088 --> 01:17:58,384
to do with my property
whatever I so desire.
1898
01:17:58,384 --> 01:18:00,261
After Leonardo
finished, you know,
1899
01:18:00,261 --> 01:18:02,430
his fellow actors, his peers,
1900
01:18:02,430 --> 01:18:05,391
and the crew, basically,
gave him a standing ovation.
1901
01:18:05,391 --> 01:18:07,393
And I think that it
was the first time
1902
01:18:07,393 --> 01:18:10,479
that Leo had really been
in that atmosphere,
1903
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,732
that brotherhood,
and that spirit of fun.
1904
01:18:12,732 --> 01:18:14,108
After a hundred
rolls of film,
1905
01:18:14,108 --> 01:18:15,985
they, all of sudden,
I'm- now I'm in chains,
1906
01:18:15,985 --> 01:18:18,070
like, all of a sudden
they start playing music.
1907
01:18:18,070 --> 01:18:20,281
(sings) Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba...
1908
01:18:20,281 --> 01:18:21,407
(speaks) I was like,
what's going on?
1909
01:18:21,407 --> 01:18:21,824
What's all this?
1910
01:18:21,824 --> 01:18:22,700
They start bringing
out tequila.
1911
01:18:22,700 --> 01:18:24,452
I say, what? Oh, shit!
1912
01:18:24,452 --> 01:18:25,620
This is great.
I said, what the fuck?
1913
01:18:25,620 --> 01:18:27,121
I said, what kind
of set is this?
1914
01:18:27,121 --> 01:18:28,873
He says, "My kinda
set, motherfucker."
1915
01:18:29,415 --> 01:18:30,416
Quentin had called
1916
01:18:30,416 --> 01:18:32,752
everybody in and- and-
and we were waiting
1917
01:18:32,752 --> 01:18:36,547
for- for everybody to
come in and we chatted and...
1918
01:18:36,547 --> 01:18:38,758
And then Quentin
came and said, "Okay.
1919
01:18:38,758 --> 01:18:42,303
I thought about this for a
long time and this morning
1920
01:18:42,303 --> 01:18:44,972
at three o'clock I came
to the conclusion,
1921
01:18:44,972 --> 01:18:48,267
now this is
what's going to happen."
1922
01:18:48,267 --> 01:18:50,561
And then he acted
out that whole scene,
1923
01:18:50,561 --> 01:18:54,190
this big battle inside.
1924
01:18:56,442 --> 01:18:58,903
And then Quentin said, "Well,
1925
01:18:58,903 --> 01:19:00,613
I thought about ending
the movie here,
1926
01:19:00,613 --> 01:19:03,115
but then this happens."
1927
01:19:03,115 --> 01:19:05,201
And he threw himself
on the floor.
1928
01:19:05,201 --> 01:19:06,953
And he jumped up
and threw his gun.
1929
01:19:06,953 --> 01:19:10,456
You know, I- I think he
had like fifteen and shot
1930
01:19:10,456 --> 01:19:14,210
and- and really acted
out the whole scene.
1931
01:19:14,210 --> 01:19:15,920
Bob Richardson
was sitting there,
1932
01:19:17,630 --> 01:19:22,093
you know, trying to control
his- his blood pressure.
1933
01:19:22,093 --> 01:19:25,680
And the- and the- the-
the stunt coordinator,
1934
01:19:25,680 --> 01:19:29,100
who is about seven feet
tall and five feet wide
1935
01:19:29,100 --> 01:19:32,645
was leaning against
the wall like that.
1936
01:19:32,645 --> 01:19:36,482
(chuckles) And the- and
the special effects guy
1937
01:19:36,482 --> 01:19:37,650
started to cry.
1938
01:19:37,650 --> 01:19:47,493
That main hall
was literally destroyed
1939
01:19:47,493 --> 01:19:52,832
and the blood was squirted
up to the second story.
1940
01:19:52,832 --> 01:19:54,875
Blood up to the
gallery of that,
1941
01:19:54,875 --> 01:19:56,919
literally everywhere.
1942
01:19:56,919 --> 01:19:57,670
Ow!
1943
01:19:57,670 --> 01:19:58,087
God!
1944
01:19:58,087 --> 01:19:59,672
The furniture,
the interior,
1945
01:19:59,672 --> 01:20:03,801
everything thrashed to
the size of toothpicks.
1946
01:20:03,801 --> 01:20:07,179
And you want to tell me
that's a true story?
1947
01:20:07,179 --> 01:20:09,598
True is what
happened on the set.
1948
01:20:09,598 --> 01:20:13,519
True is what happens
on the screen.
1949
01:20:13,519 --> 01:20:16,355
But the violence? No.
1950
01:20:17,314 --> 01:20:19,191
The violence is opera.
1951
01:20:20,609 --> 01:20:23,362
Django...!
1952
01:20:23,779 --> 01:20:26,073
You (indistinct) son of a...
1953
01:20:26,073 --> 01:20:28,367
Django's not trying
to cure slavery.
1954
01:20:29,452 --> 01:20:31,245
He just wants to take out
the people that did him
1955
01:20:31,245 --> 01:20:32,580
bad and get with his girl.
1956
01:20:35,541 --> 01:20:37,001
This is a love story.
1957
01:20:40,171 --> 01:20:41,964
Django is the- is
the super hero.
1958
01:20:41,964 --> 01:20:44,175
He's the guy who rides
off into the sunset.
1959
01:20:44,175 --> 01:20:46,635
And you don't see a lot of
black characters that do that.
1960
01:20:46,635 --> 01:20:48,596
You don't see in Hollywood
when a black character's
1961
01:20:48,596 --> 01:20:52,183
in that type of setting of
slavery does what he does,
1962
01:20:52,183 --> 01:20:54,435
kills the bad white
folks, gets his girl,
1963
01:20:54,435 --> 01:20:56,061
and rides off into the sunset.
1964
01:21:13,412 --> 01:21:14,622
It's about eight
people trapped
1965
01:21:14,622 --> 01:21:16,540
in a blizzard in
a haberdashery
1966
01:21:16,540 --> 01:21:18,125
in the middle of nowhere.
1967
01:21:18,125 --> 01:21:21,462
It's a mixture of
western, who-done-it,
1968
01:21:21,462 --> 01:21:23,756
revenge movie.
It's all those things.
1969
01:21:23,756 --> 01:21:25,007
Want to make a deal?
1970
01:21:25,007 --> 01:21:25,716
Huh?
1971
01:21:25,716 --> 01:21:27,968
The deal
still stands, Chris.
1972
01:21:27,968 --> 01:21:30,471
You ain't got nothing
we can't forgive.
1973
01:21:30,471 --> 01:21:32,598
The Hateful Eight is
kind of almost like a- a
1974
01:21:32,598 --> 01:21:35,100
bookend of Reservoir Dogs.
1975
01:21:35,100 --> 01:21:36,769
It'd just be more bullshit.
1976
01:21:39,396 --> 01:21:40,815
This man set us up.
1977
01:21:40,815 --> 01:21:43,609
He creates an initial scenario,
1978
01:21:43,609 --> 01:21:45,444
an initial group of people,
1979
01:21:47,029 --> 01:21:49,031
and he throws them together
1980
01:21:49,031 --> 01:21:50,407
often in one room.
1981
01:21:50,407 --> 01:21:55,454
And then he explores what
might happen by putting
1982
01:21:55,454 --> 01:21:58,332
this group of people
in the same room,
1983
01:21:58,332 --> 01:22:00,835
like Reservoir Dogs
or The Hateful Eight.
1984
01:22:00,835 --> 01:22:02,378
It's a complete ensemble piece,
1985
01:22:02,378 --> 01:22:05,965
which is pretty incredible
because you've got eight people
1986
01:22:05,965 --> 01:22:09,593
in there talking to each other
about some very specific,
1987
01:22:09,593 --> 01:22:13,764
interesting, and sometimes
very hateful things.
1988
01:22:13,764 --> 01:22:20,271
(spits) (grunts) What
the- (groans) (groans)
1989
01:22:20,271 --> 01:22:23,649
He lets the
characters be infused
1990
01:22:23,649 --> 01:22:26,318
by the actors that he
chooses to portray them.
1991
01:22:27,528 --> 01:22:29,613
He played me a piece of
music and then he said,
1992
01:22:29,613 --> 01:22:31,657
"I think it would be nice
if Daisy played the guitar
1993
01:22:31,657 --> 01:22:33,409
and sang this song."
1994
01:22:33,409 --> 01:22:35,077
It really focused me
1995
01:22:35,077 --> 01:22:37,413
because I had to practice
that fucking instrument
1996
01:22:37,413 --> 01:22:40,666
everyday whenever
I was not on camera.
1997
01:22:40,666 --> 01:22:44,378
(sings) I'll kill you
bastards one and all I'll
1998
01:22:44,378 --> 01:22:48,090
gun the floggers down It
was ama-I had never played
1999
01:22:48,090 --> 01:22:49,967
guitar in my life.
2000
01:22:49,967 --> 01:22:54,638
(sings) And you'll be
dead Behind me John
2001
01:22:54,638 --> 01:22:59,143
When I get to Mexico.
2002
01:22:59,143 --> 01:23:00,686
He wanted it to
come from the inside.
2003
01:23:00,686 --> 01:23:02,229
And when you are singing
a song to yourself,
2004
01:23:02,229 --> 01:23:05,065
you're immediately going inward.
2005
01:23:05,065 --> 01:23:06,775
Give me that guitar.
2006
01:23:06,775 --> 01:23:09,278
I think he has a way
of getting into each
2007
01:23:09,278 --> 01:23:13,157
character and
letting them breathe
2008
01:23:13,157 --> 01:23:14,742
and create their life.
2009
01:23:14,742 --> 01:23:18,579
(laughs) He gave me the script.
2010
01:23:18,579 --> 01:23:22,124
He goes, "Here.
You're Joe Gage."
2011
01:23:22,124 --> 01:23:24,501
A bastards work
is never done,
2012
01:23:24,501 --> 01:23:26,837
huh, John Ruth?
2013
01:23:26,837 --> 01:23:28,714
That's right, Joe Gage.
2014
01:23:28,714 --> 01:23:31,759
And I said, "Thanks
for thinking of me."
2015
01:23:31,759 --> 01:23:35,679
And he goes, "Michael, you
were there at the beginning,
2016
01:23:35,679 --> 01:23:39,767
and by God you're gonna
be here now, you know."
2017
01:23:46,941 --> 01:23:48,859
I find him to be the same man,
2018
01:23:49,985 --> 01:23:53,864
but just with a
lot more of a pack.
2019
01:23:53,864 --> 01:23:56,742
He's more of a package
than he was, you know.
2020
01:23:56,742 --> 01:23:58,077
He pays attention.
2021
01:23:59,161 --> 01:24:03,457
He also became much more
sophisticated as a filmmaker.
2022
01:24:03,457 --> 01:24:06,669
His mastery of blocking
and his mastery of camera
2023
01:24:06,669 --> 01:24:10,214
movement and that
choreography is really
2024
01:24:10,214 --> 01:24:14,051
pronounced and you can
really see his growth.
2025
01:24:14,051 --> 01:24:16,762
Also, you are seeing his
maturity as a human being.
2026
01:24:16,762 --> 01:24:18,681
He may look at
the same things,
2027
01:24:18,681 --> 01:24:21,600
but through the lens of
where he sits right now.
2028
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:24,979
Who said it that, uh,
Kurt Russell's character was
2029
01:24:24,979 --> 01:24:26,772
based on, yeah.
2030
01:24:26,772 --> 01:24:29,024
I think John Ruth was
a lot nicer guy that
2031
01:24:29,024 --> 01:24:30,234
Harvey Weinstein.
2032
01:24:30,234 --> 01:24:31,360
If Kurt was supposed
to be Harvey,
2033
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:34,113
then that must have been
Harvey's good side.
2034
01:24:34,113 --> 01:24:35,698
You ruin that letter of his,
2035
01:24:35,698 --> 01:24:37,783
that nigger's gonna stomp
your ass to death.
2036
01:24:37,783 --> 01:24:40,744
And when he do, I'm gonna
sit back on that wagon
2037
01:24:40,744 --> 01:24:42,413
wheel, watch, and laugh.
2038
01:24:42,413 --> 01:24:44,790
(exhales) Yeah, if you
read them on the page it
2039
01:24:44,790 --> 01:24:46,125
was a little more accurate.
2040
01:24:46,125 --> 01:24:48,252
Kurt's the most charming
person on the planet.
2041
01:24:48,252 --> 01:24:52,047
When that sun comes out,
I'm taking this woman into
2042
01:24:52,047 --> 01:24:54,383
Red Rock to hang.
2043
01:24:54,383 --> 01:24:57,511
The association of
Quentin and Harvey
2044
01:24:57,511 --> 01:24:58,929
over twenty-five years,
2045
01:24:58,929 --> 01:25:00,806
it was a pretty
good brotherhood.
2046
01:25:00,806 --> 01:25:03,142
It was a pretty good
combination of Hollywood
2047
01:25:03,142 --> 01:25:06,854
power and of talent.
2048
01:25:06,854 --> 01:25:09,273
In the past, with the
Weinstein Company,
2049
01:25:09,273 --> 01:25:12,401
whatever he said was-
was the word of God.
2050
01:25:12,401 --> 01:25:14,570
These guys, there was a toll,
2051
01:25:16,155 --> 01:25:16,822
you know?
2052
01:25:16,822 --> 01:25:19,950
He earned, he made enough
money for everybody.
2053
01:25:22,202 --> 01:25:22,786
We shot on seventy,
2054
01:25:22,786 --> 01:25:26,623
because he knew
that if we went to the
2055
01:25:26,623 --> 01:25:28,375
expense of shooting
on seventy,
2056
01:25:28,375 --> 01:25:30,419
they were gonna
project it in seventy.
2057
01:25:30,419 --> 01:25:33,297
And it was the exhibition,
which was as important
2058
01:25:33,297 --> 01:25:35,215
as the image capture.
2059
01:25:35,215 --> 01:25:39,470
Quentin cares about cinema
and caring about cinema
2060
01:25:39,470 --> 01:25:41,472
means literally
caring about cinema,
2061
01:25:41,472 --> 01:25:44,433
caring about film,
the romance of cinema,
2062
01:25:44,433 --> 01:25:46,935
how it looks and feels,
and for him,
2063
01:25:46,935 --> 01:25:49,688
he doesn't feel that
digital technology
2064
01:25:49,688 --> 01:25:54,568
approximates the impact
that that flicker has on us.
2065
01:25:54,568 --> 01:25:55,652
He just bought a theater.
2066
01:25:55,652 --> 01:25:57,529
He owns the new Beverly Cinema.
2067
01:25:57,529 --> 01:26:00,449
I've been going there recently
introducing pictures.
2068
01:26:00,449 --> 01:26:02,159
I love the new Beverly.
I was there last week.
2069
01:26:02,159 --> 01:26:03,285
We watched a print of Seven,
2070
01:26:03,285 --> 01:26:04,369
which had silver in it.
2071
01:26:04,369 --> 01:26:05,662
It was incredible.
2072
01:26:05,662 --> 01:26:06,413
It was so beautiful.
2073
01:26:06,413 --> 01:26:08,207
I mean Quentin leaned
over to me and he's like,
2074
01:26:08,207 --> 01:26:09,291
"Take a good look.
2075
01:26:09,291 --> 01:26:10,542
You're never gonna see
a finisher movie look
2076
01:26:10,542 --> 01:26:11,293
this good again.
2077
01:26:11,293 --> 01:26:13,879
(chuckles) It's
like sad, but true.
2078
01:26:13,879 --> 01:26:15,422
He wrote it in the script,
glorious seventy
2079
01:26:15,422 --> 01:26:19,259
millimeter about
six times during the
2080
01:26:19,259 --> 01:26:20,052
first twenty pages.
2081
01:26:20,052 --> 01:26:22,137
And my jaw dropped
when I saw that.
2082
01:26:22,137 --> 01:26:23,514
I was like, "You're
kidding me, right?
2083
01:26:23,514 --> 01:26:24,973
You're gonna
actually do this?"
2084
01:26:45,536 --> 01:26:47,955
Once he found
this big, gorgeous,
2085
01:26:47,955 --> 01:26:50,499
beautiful seventy
millimeter format,
2086
01:26:50,499 --> 01:26:54,586
he realized that there
was an intimacy.
2087
01:26:54,586 --> 01:26:56,922
He'd shot a hundred
close ups of Sam Jackson,
2088
01:26:56,922 --> 01:26:58,841
but he never shot a
close up of Sam Jackson
2089
01:26:58,841 --> 01:27:00,509
that looked like that.
2090
01:27:00,509 --> 01:27:04,221
And you literally could
get even deeper underneath
2091
01:27:04,221 --> 01:27:06,473
the skin and into the
hearts and minds of these
2092
01:27:06,473 --> 01:27:09,935
characters and hold
these big wide frames
2093
01:27:09,935 --> 01:27:13,522
so that you were
almost in theater.
2094
01:27:13,522 --> 01:27:15,941
Everybody had to be on
at every given moment in
2095
01:27:15,941 --> 01:27:18,944
those rooms all the time.
2096
01:27:18,944 --> 01:27:21,029
I don't know really that
Quentin would have felt
2097
01:27:21,029 --> 01:27:23,740
all that comfortable doing
the seventy millimeter thing
2098
01:27:23,740 --> 01:27:27,828
if Bob Richardson wasn't
his partner doing it with him.
2099
01:27:27,828 --> 01:27:29,913
Bob brings so much
to the table both
2100
01:27:29,913 --> 01:27:33,125
technically and creatively.
2101
01:27:33,125 --> 01:27:38,380
Quentin's exuberance and
his enthusiasm for films
2102
01:27:38,380 --> 01:27:42,593
and filmmaking is so
unbelievably vast.
2103
01:27:42,593 --> 01:27:46,096
And that's the way he
was making Reservoir Dogs
2104
01:27:46,096 --> 01:27:48,265
and that's the way he is
making The Hateful Eight,
2105
01:27:48,265 --> 01:27:52,102
and that spirit is contagious.
2106
01:27:53,395 --> 01:27:55,731
Quentin values friendship.
2107
01:27:55,731 --> 01:27:58,984
Quentin values
deep relationships.
2108
01:27:58,984 --> 01:28:03,489
Quentin values a rag tag
sort of family that is
2109
01:28:03,489 --> 01:28:06,325
more committed to each other
than even actual blood.
2110
01:28:06,325 --> 01:28:08,410
And I think that you
see that on our set.
2111
01:28:08,410 --> 01:28:10,704
(chuckles) That was a great one.
2112
01:28:10,704 --> 01:28:11,830
We have the same people.
2113
01:28:11,830 --> 01:28:13,957
Our script supervisor
has been with Quentin since
2114
01:28:13,957 --> 01:28:15,000
Reservoir Dogs.
2115
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,419
Our sound mixer, I think,
has been with us since Pulp.
2116
01:28:17,419 --> 01:28:20,923
The makeup crew, stunts,
everybody feels like
2117
01:28:20,923 --> 01:28:22,007
they're coming home.
2118
01:28:22,007 --> 01:28:23,258
It's that Quentin thing
where you're suddenly
2119
01:28:23,258 --> 01:28:25,219
working around family
and to see so many familiar
2120
01:28:25,219 --> 01:28:28,805
faces and that loyalty that
Quentin has to his people,
2121
01:28:28,805 --> 01:28:30,224
his crew, and his cast.
2122
01:28:30,224 --> 01:28:31,683
There's music playing.
2123
01:28:31,683 --> 01:28:33,894
There's conversation.
2124
01:28:33,894 --> 01:28:34,728
There's laughter.
2125
01:28:34,728 --> 01:28:36,563
Quentin's like,
"No cell phones on set.
2126
01:28:36,563 --> 01:28:37,356
Let's go to work."
2127
01:28:37,356 --> 01:28:40,025
And if you were caught
with a cell phone,
2128
01:28:40,025 --> 01:28:41,735
you'd be fired, no
matter who you are.
2129
01:28:41,735 --> 01:28:43,779
We called him Checkpoint
Charlie where you had to
2130
01:28:43,779 --> 01:28:46,156
turn in your cell phone
and he put it in a Ziploc
2131
01:28:46,156 --> 01:28:47,950
bag with your name on it,
and there were absolutely
2132
01:28:47,950 --> 01:28:49,326
no cell phones allowed on set.
2133
01:28:49,326 --> 01:28:50,619
And so we talk to each other,
2134
01:28:50,619 --> 01:28:52,579
we dance, we sing,
we laugh.
2135
01:28:52,579 --> 01:28:54,206
We talk about
what we just did and
2136
01:28:54,206 --> 01:28:55,791
how we can make it
better the next time.
2137
01:28:55,791 --> 01:28:58,001
Just like an extraordinary
experience just being on
2138
01:28:58,001 --> 01:28:59,670
set when it's that down take.
2139
01:28:59,670 --> 01:29:01,630
He laughs openly during takes.
2140
01:29:01,630 --> 01:29:02,464
He cheers.
2141
01:29:02,464 --> 01:29:04,925
I imagine that he
cuts himself out.
2142
01:29:04,925 --> 01:29:06,802
Douche Bag take one.
2143
01:29:06,802 --> 01:29:09,096
Twenty-eight prick,
take two.
2144
01:29:09,096 --> 01:29:14,935
Humiliation,
take one, mark.
2145
01:29:14,935 --> 01:29:17,354
(indistinct) Premiere take one.
(indistinct) Premiere.
2146
01:29:17,354 --> 01:29:24,236
(laughs) His sets have
become the most unique
2147
01:29:24,236 --> 01:29:26,196
set experience you can have.
2148
01:29:26,196 --> 01:29:27,990
What Quentin
would say all the time,
2149
01:29:27,990 --> 01:29:34,496
"All right, we got this
and we could move on,
2150
01:29:34,496 --> 01:29:36,290
but we're gonna do one more."
2151
01:29:36,290 --> 01:29:38,917
We're gonna do one more.
2152
01:29:38,917 --> 01:29:40,085
Why?
2153
01:29:40,544 --> 01:29:46,508
Because we love making movies.
2154
01:29:46,508 --> 01:29:48,594
I said, "Man, I'm- I'm-
I'm on that train."
2155
01:29:49,428 --> 01:29:50,679
He's a fan.
2156
01:29:50,679 --> 01:29:53,098
You know he loves movies.
2157
01:29:53,098 --> 01:29:54,558
He appreciates people.
2158
01:29:54,558 --> 01:29:57,102
He's a fan of fans.
2159
01:29:57,102 --> 01:29:59,229
He appreciates life.
2160
01:29:59,229 --> 01:30:01,732
His way of socializing
is inviting people over to
2161
01:30:01,732 --> 01:30:03,066
watch a movie.
2162
01:30:03,066 --> 01:30:04,985
He gets us all together.
2163
01:30:04,985 --> 01:30:07,029
He screens a
movie of some sort.
2164
01:30:07,029 --> 01:30:08,405
Hey, everybody,
come on and sit down.
2165
01:30:08,405 --> 01:30:10,032
Let's watch this.
2166
01:30:10,032 --> 01:30:11,533
And he'd go get some
popcorn and sit there and
2167
01:30:11,533 --> 01:30:12,492
watch it with you.
2168
01:30:12,492 --> 01:30:15,120
It's a collective experience.
2169
01:30:15,746 --> 01:30:18,874
He was showing it to
us for the first time.
2170
01:30:18,874 --> 01:30:20,625
We're just this
group of, you know,
2171
01:30:20,625 --> 01:30:25,297
people and actors that he
had chosen to use in his movie.
2172
01:30:25,297 --> 01:30:27,299
After the screening was over,
2173
01:30:27,299 --> 01:30:28,634
I couldn't help but notice.
2174
01:30:28,634 --> 01:30:33,430
He wasn't just sweating,
he was- he was drenched.
2175
01:30:33,430 --> 01:30:38,143
And yet, I've never
met anyone who honestly
2176
01:30:38,143 --> 01:30:41,563
comes even remotely close to
the confidence he has when it
2177
01:30:41,563 --> 01:30:44,024
comes to making his movie.
2178
01:30:44,024 --> 01:30:46,276
It's amazing to me that
he would have any nerves on
2179
01:30:46,276 --> 01:30:47,319
the other end at all.
2180
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:50,697
But is shows, you know,
how much he cares.
2181
01:30:57,829 --> 01:31:01,249
He was big and
he was everywhere.
2182
01:31:07,172 --> 01:31:08,965
And everybody feared him.
2183
01:31:32,197 --> 01:31:33,615
Quentin and Harvey
2184
01:31:33,615 --> 01:31:35,367
Weinstein are two
different animals.
2185
01:31:37,202 --> 01:31:37,619
I get it.
2186
01:31:37,619 --> 01:31:39,704
I understand why a
lot of these girls
2187
01:31:39,704 --> 01:31:40,789
didn't say anything.
2188
01:31:41,873 --> 01:31:43,291
Their life depended on it.
2189
01:31:46,586 --> 01:31:50,090
If my livelihood, the
preservation of my children,
2190
01:31:52,426 --> 01:31:54,469
if that is
dependent upon someone
2191
01:31:54,469 --> 01:31:58,557
else that has power,
like a Harvey Weinstein,
2192
01:31:58,557 --> 01:32:00,267
it's really scary.
2193
01:32:02,227 --> 01:32:06,148
That's the underbelly
of the industry that
2194
01:32:06,148 --> 01:32:08,859
nobody knows about
and it's really dark
2195
01:32:08,859 --> 01:32:10,861
and it's really fucked up.
2196
01:32:11,820 --> 01:32:13,363
I've been told things
from a few people
2197
01:32:13,363 --> 01:32:14,948
who haven't
even shown up yet.
2198
01:32:17,909 --> 01:32:19,744
I'll say exactly
what Quentin said.
2199
01:32:19,744 --> 01:32:20,620
He simply said, "Listen.
2200
01:32:20,620 --> 01:32:22,581
I knew about it
for a long time.
2201
01:32:23,874 --> 01:32:25,625
And I should have said
something, but I didn't."
2202
01:32:29,045 --> 01:32:30,380
The fear factor
2203
01:32:30,380 --> 01:32:32,340
should never have
entered into any of it.
2204
01:32:32,340 --> 01:32:34,217
And that's what I think
the average person doesn't
2205
01:32:34,217 --> 01:32:37,971
understand, the fear
and the emotional shutdown
2206
01:32:37,971 --> 01:32:42,684
that you'd have to
force yourself into.
2207
01:32:42,684 --> 01:32:43,226
Oh, my God.
2208
01:32:43,226 --> 01:32:44,811
I can't believe
what just happened.
2209
01:32:44,811 --> 01:32:46,813
And who am I gonna
say anything to?
2210
01:32:46,813 --> 01:32:50,192
And if I do say
something, I'm finished.
2211
01:32:50,192 --> 01:32:51,693
I won't be in
another movie and
2212
01:32:51,693 --> 01:32:54,404
I won't be able to
fulfill my life.
2213
01:32:54,404 --> 01:32:55,906
That's a pretty hard thing.
2214
01:33:08,460 --> 01:33:10,504
Now you find out about
these hundreds of
2215
01:33:10,504 --> 01:33:13,131
thousands of dollars that
was paid out to these
2216
01:33:13,131 --> 01:33:15,217
different girls in
situations with him.
2217
01:33:16,384 --> 01:33:17,302
But see the people
2218
01:33:17,302 --> 01:33:18,803
who are complicit with that,
2219
01:33:18,803 --> 01:33:20,347
who followed his orders,
2220
01:33:20,347 --> 01:33:23,058
they're just as blameable
and corrupted as- as him.
2221
01:33:23,517 --> 01:33:24,434
And a lot of that ain't
2222
01:33:24,434 --> 01:33:25,769
on the cover of Time Magazine.
2223
01:33:25,769 --> 01:33:26,895
They're still hiding.
2224
01:33:26,895 --> 01:33:29,314
There's a lot of them
out there who were
2225
01:33:29,314 --> 01:33:31,149
more than
happy to follow the
2226
01:33:31,149 --> 01:33:33,318
orders and the ideals of,
2227
01:33:33,318 --> 01:33:34,820
uh, Harvey's opinion.
2228
01:33:38,323 --> 01:33:40,158
And the fact
that your own body,
2229
01:33:40,158 --> 01:33:44,454
your own face, your
physical being is what you
2230
01:33:44,454 --> 01:33:46,623
use as your
instrument of work,
2231
01:33:47,123 --> 01:33:49,042
and if that gets
persecuted and that gets
2232
01:33:49,042 --> 01:33:50,710
ruined and that gets destroyed,
2233
01:33:50,710 --> 01:33:53,296
and somebody like Harvey
has the power to do that,
2234
01:33:53,296 --> 01:33:54,381
don't hire that person.
2235
01:33:54,673 --> 01:33:55,757
And the people who would take
2236
01:33:55,757 --> 01:33:57,801
a call from a Harvey Weinstein,
2237
01:33:57,801 --> 01:33:59,010
"Oh, that was Harvey."
2238
01:33:59,010 --> 01:34:02,847
(smacks lips) "Yeah, he says
not to hire so and so."
2239
01:34:08,603 --> 01:34:13,191
Having now separated
himself so instantaneously
2240
01:34:13,191 --> 01:34:15,485
from Harvey, that
was the end of it.
2241
01:34:28,999 --> 01:34:30,458
It's the end of an era.
2242
01:34:32,377 --> 01:34:34,212
It's an era that
certainly made a point
2243
01:34:34,212 --> 01:34:37,674
and was envied by an
awful lot of people.
2244
01:34:44,014 --> 01:34:45,223
He has moved on.
2245
01:34:49,394 --> 01:34:50,604
He's making a new movie.
2246
01:34:50,604 --> 01:34:52,230
He's doing Once Upon
a Time in Hollywood.
2247
01:34:54,065 --> 01:34:54,816
And it ain't with the
2248
01:34:54,816 --> 01:34:55,817
Weinstein Company.
2249
01:34:56,484 --> 01:35:00,905
Quentin Tarantino
is a rock star.
2250
01:35:02,532 --> 01:35:05,201
Quentin Tarantino can do
a movie about any subject
2251
01:35:05,201 --> 01:35:07,662
matter that he wants to
because Quentin Tarantino
2252
01:35:07,662 --> 01:35:09,873
stands out in front of
the movie a little bit.
2253
01:35:14,753 --> 01:35:16,338
He's not gonna fade out.
2254
01:35:16,338 --> 01:35:18,381
This is why he talks
about making ten.
2255
01:35:18,381 --> 01:35:21,259
He doesn't want to be
that guy who people go,
2256
01:35:21,259 --> 01:35:22,802
"Oh, most of them was good,
2257
01:35:22,802 --> 01:35:25,347
but his stuff, you know
as his stuff used to be,
2258
01:35:25,347 --> 01:35:27,557
but you know he's a bit
too old for it now,
2259
01:35:27,557 --> 01:35:28,433
you know.
2260
01:35:28,433 --> 01:35:29,142
Bless him."
2261
01:35:29,142 --> 01:35:29,851
Doesn't want that.
2262
01:35:29,851 --> 01:35:30,935
I don't know, man.
2263
01:35:30,935 --> 01:35:33,605
I think he needs to live
to a hundred and fifty or
2264
01:35:33,605 --> 01:35:36,441
two hundred years just so
he can accomplish whatever
2265
01:35:36,441 --> 01:35:37,734
he wants to accomplish.
2266
01:35:37,734 --> 01:35:43,990
You know how his
characters are related.
2267
01:35:43,990 --> 01:35:44,908
There's always a kind of a
2268
01:35:44,908 --> 01:35:47,077
family history
that runs through.
2269
01:35:47,077 --> 01:35:47,869
I'm Doctor King Schultz.
2270
01:35:47,869 --> 01:35:49,329
This is my horse Fritz.
2271
01:35:50,246 --> 01:35:51,998
Full loads? Obviously.
2272
01:35:52,666 --> 01:35:57,420
Dandy Michaels, Joe Nash, and...
2273
01:35:57,420 --> 01:35:58,546
Crazy Craig Koons.
2274
01:35:59,881 --> 01:36:02,384
This here is Captain Koons.
2275
01:36:02,384 --> 01:36:05,261
He was in the POW
camp with Daddy.
2276
01:36:05,261 --> 01:36:06,471
You know there's a family chain,
2277
01:36:06,471 --> 01:36:08,098
that there's a string
that runs from the beginning
2278
01:36:08,098 --> 01:36:09,099
through to the end.
2279
01:36:11,059 --> 01:36:13,395
Hello, little man.
2280
01:36:13,395 --> 01:36:15,271
So I am in Hateful Eight,
2281
01:36:15,271 --> 01:36:18,483
the great- great
grandfather of
2282
01:36:18,483 --> 01:36:20,610
Michael Fassbender's character
2283
01:36:20,610 --> 01:36:22,070
in Inglourious Basterds.
2284
01:36:22,070 --> 01:36:25,573
I'm watching Kill Bill,
and there's Earl McGraw alive
2285
01:36:25,573 --> 01:36:28,326
as a character in it
with his son, James Parks.
2286
01:36:28,326 --> 01:36:30,996
I said, "They got killed in From
Dust Till Dawn One and Two."
2287
01:36:30,996 --> 01:36:32,914
He goes,
"This happens before that."
2288
01:36:32,914 --> 01:36:33,957
I'm like, "Oh, God.
2289
01:36:33,957 --> 01:36:36,543
You- you like a gen-He's-
he's- he reminds me of like
2290
01:36:36,543 --> 01:36:37,669
Norman Lear, you know,
2291
01:36:37,669 --> 01:36:40,046
how All In The Family
begot The Jeffersons and
2292
01:36:40,046 --> 01:36:41,589
The Jeffersons begot
the Good Times
2293
01:36:41,589 --> 01:36:42,924
and so on and so forth.
2294
01:36:42,924 --> 01:36:45,301
He was gonna make
the Vega Brothers,
2295
01:36:45,301 --> 01:36:46,928
which would be me and John,
2296
01:36:46,928 --> 01:36:47,971
which would have been great,
2297
01:36:47,971 --> 01:36:48,805
right?
2298
01:36:48,805 --> 01:36:49,889
'Cause that would be believable,
2299
01:36:49,889 --> 01:36:50,515
right?
2300
01:36:50,515 --> 01:36:53,810
It would have to be a prequel
because we're both dead,
2301
01:36:53,810 --> 01:36:55,520
which doesn't make sense,
2302
01:36:55,520 --> 01:36:57,355
but that's how it would be.
2303
01:36:57,355 --> 01:36:58,565
He's got his ten.
2304
01:36:58,565 --> 01:36:59,816
He'll do other stuff.
2305
01:36:59,816 --> 01:37:02,485
(stammers) And I know some
of his plans and they're
2306
01:37:02,485 --> 01:37:03,528
fucking amazing.
2307
01:37:03,528 --> 01:37:05,572
You're writing
your life story.
2308
01:37:05,572 --> 01:37:07,240
You bet I am.
2309
01:37:07,240 --> 01:37:08,658
Am I in it?
2310
01:37:08,658 --> 01:37:11,953
(chuckles) You just entered.
2311
01:37:11,953 --> 01:37:13,663
I mean, I wonder when
he starts writing books
2312
01:37:13,663 --> 01:37:15,457
whether he will,
some of these characters will
2313
01:37:15,457 --> 01:37:16,791
show up in his novels.
2314
01:37:18,460 --> 01:37:20,211
It's complete.
It's a hundred percent.
2315
01:37:20,211 --> 01:37:23,423
And sacrificed relationship,
2316
01:37:23,423 --> 01:37:25,467
having children,
all of that stuff to
2317
01:37:25,467 --> 01:37:27,469
pursue his dream.
2318
01:37:27,469 --> 01:37:30,013
He's a complete filmmaker
and- and an artist in- in
2319
01:37:30,013 --> 01:37:31,222
the full on sense.
2320
01:37:32,432 --> 01:37:33,308
We're gonna miss it.
2321
01:37:33,308 --> 01:37:36,394
We're gonna miss the
opportunity that he brings.
2322
01:37:36,394 --> 01:37:38,438
And it's true of all of us.
2323
01:37:38,438 --> 01:37:40,648
If your phone
buzzes in your pocket
2324
01:37:40,648 --> 01:37:42,150
and you take it
out of your pocket
2325
01:37:42,150 --> 01:37:43,151
and you look at it and it says
2326
01:37:43,151 --> 01:37:45,111
QT on it,
you go please, please,
2327
01:37:45,111 --> 01:37:49,157
please, oh just please,
please be one, please.
2328
01:37:49,157 --> 01:37:50,867
You know and
(imitates phone on).
2329
01:37:50,867 --> 01:37:53,036
Hi. And he goes, "Hi.
2330
01:37:53,036 --> 01:37:54,579
Um, I've got something
I want you to read."
2331
01:37:54,579 --> 01:37:55,872
And you're done.
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