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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:33,331 --> 00:00:35,374 Who do you know right now that's dangerous? 2 00:00:35,374 --> 00:00:38,628 I got a friend and he and I love to fuck shit up. 3 00:00:38,628 --> 00:00:41,214 There is no one like Quentin. 4 00:00:42,382 --> 00:00:43,549 There's Quentin. 5 00:00:47,261 --> 00:00:48,805 He makes a different kind of movie. 6 00:00:50,264 --> 00:00:52,266 You're gonna land the word nigger a hundred 7 00:00:52,266 --> 00:00:54,185 and ten times on Christmas? 8 00:00:56,270 --> 00:00:58,397 Quentin loves strong female characters. 9 00:01:00,274 --> 00:01:03,069 Brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing. 10 00:01:05,947 --> 00:01:08,199 From the mind of Quentin Tarantino, 11 00:01:09,158 --> 00:01:11,702 he really is a powerhouse of creativity. 12 00:01:11,702 --> 00:01:12,662 It's Quentin's World. 13 00:01:12,662 --> 00:01:13,579 It's his baby. 14 00:01:13,579 --> 00:01:14,872 He wrote it. 15 00:01:14,872 --> 00:01:15,665 He's a lightning rod. 16 00:01:15,665 --> 00:01:17,291 He's absolutely unique. 17 00:01:17,291 --> 00:01:19,085 He's the voice of his generation. 18 00:01:22,213 --> 00:01:24,132 It's the end of an era of Quentin 19 00:01:24,132 --> 00:01:25,842 and the Weinstein Company. 20 00:01:25,842 --> 00:01:27,426 He's not gonna fade out. 21 00:01:27,426 --> 00:01:28,886 This is why he talks about making ten. 22 00:01:30,179 --> 00:01:33,850 Quentin is a champion of the female. 23 00:01:35,101 --> 00:01:36,519 And he's just the build, 24 00:01:36,519 --> 00:01:38,354 but he gets the opportunity to do this. 25 00:01:53,911 --> 00:01:57,707 And then there are the movies. 26 00:01:57,707 --> 00:02:01,919 Now, that's what he says about himself, 27 00:02:01,919 --> 00:02:04,005 about how he sees the world, 28 00:02:04,005 --> 00:02:08,676 his very purpose of existence. 29 00:02:08,676 --> 00:02:11,345 Quentin's sort of a natural born filmmaker. 30 00:02:11,345 --> 00:02:12,847 It's his passion. 31 00:02:12,847 --> 00:02:16,184 It's where he connects with the full range of 32 00:02:16,184 --> 00:02:17,476 human feeling. 33 00:02:17,476 --> 00:02:19,145 And I think that you really see the through line 34 00:02:19,145 --> 00:02:21,647 of his fascinations as a human being running 35 00:02:21,647 --> 00:02:23,566 all the way through what matters to him, 36 00:02:23,566 --> 00:02:25,651 looking at race in America... 37 00:02:25,651 --> 00:02:28,237 ...looking at what is romance... 38 00:02:28,237 --> 00:02:29,780 ...commitment... 39 00:02:29,780 --> 00:02:30,698 ...honor... 40 00:02:30,698 --> 00:02:32,366 ...betrayal, 41 00:02:32,366 --> 00:02:33,701 loyalty... 42 00:02:33,701 --> 00:02:35,703 ...and people having to 43 00:02:35,703 --> 00:02:36,662 do the right thing. 44 00:02:40,499 --> 00:02:43,502 It's for sure the end of an era. The Weinsteins 45 00:02:43,502 --> 00:02:46,047 have been the distributor of every single film of 46 00:02:46,047 --> 00:02:47,465 ...his in the United States. 47 00:02:47,465 --> 00:02:49,217 Eight movies, all of them, 48 00:02:49,217 --> 00:02:50,468 very successful. 49 00:02:52,094 --> 00:02:53,846 He surely is immortality. 50 00:03:04,232 --> 00:03:06,859 A friend of mine, he turned me onto Quentin Tarantino,... 51 00:03:06,859 --> 00:03:07,360 ...who was 52 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,321 stuffing video boxes at Imperial Entertainment. 53 00:03:10,321 --> 00:03:12,615 And we had this meeting and he seemed like kind of 54 00:03:12,615 --> 00:03:14,033 an overzealous geek. 55 00:03:14,033 --> 00:03:15,701 Pardon, pardon me. 56 00:03:15,701 --> 00:03:16,410 But guess what? 57 00:03:16,410 --> 00:03:18,037 He had the talent to back it up. 58 00:03:18,037 --> 00:03:19,872 He would sleep on my couch. 59 00:03:19,872 --> 00:03:21,791 I don't think he had a car at the time 60 00:03:21,791 --> 00:03:23,167 and flat broke. 61 00:03:23,167 --> 00:03:25,253 "I want to get in the movie business. 62 00:03:25,253 --> 00:03:26,337 Do I think I can write? 63 00:03:26,337 --> 00:03:29,048 I'm gonna give it a stab, 'cause all it takes is 64 00:03:29,048 --> 00:03:29,924 a pen and paper." 65 00:03:29,924 --> 00:03:30,591 I asked him about 66 00:03:30,591 --> 00:03:31,300 writing on a computer. 67 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:32,718 He said, "You can't write on a computer." 68 00:03:32,718 --> 00:03:33,386 I'm like, "Why not?" 69 00:03:33,386 --> 00:03:35,012 He's like, "You can't write poetry on a computer. 70 00:03:35,012 --> 00:03:36,764 He's like, "My pen is my antennae to God. 71 00:03:36,764 --> 00:03:37,515 That's how I write. 72 00:03:37,515 --> 00:03:38,766 It just- it just flows. 73 00:03:38,766 --> 00:03:39,809 It's just a receiver." 74 00:03:39,809 --> 00:03:42,478 He has a red pen and a black pen, felt tip, 75 00:03:42,478 --> 00:03:45,356 and yellow legal pad, and dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit. 76 00:03:45,356 --> 00:03:46,065 That was it. 77 00:03:46,065 --> 00:03:48,401 Five minutes later, he's got dialogue that would 78 00:03:48,401 --> 00:03:50,653 take some people an entire lifetime to write. 79 00:03:50,653 --> 00:03:54,073 I think Quentin basically writes novels 80 00:03:54,073 --> 00:03:57,451 and then when he's directing, he's basically adapting 81 00:03:57,451 --> 00:03:59,078 his own novel to the screen. 82 00:03:59,078 --> 00:04:01,372 A lot of different things are gonna happen. 83 00:04:01,372 --> 00:04:03,666 It's a roller coaster ride. Oh, yeah, baby. 84 00:04:03,666 --> 00:04:05,459 You're gonna be horrified. 85 00:04:05,459 --> 00:04:06,085 (groans) 86 00:04:06,085 --> 00:04:08,629 You're gonna feel relief. Then say something. 87 00:04:10,089 --> 00:04:11,590 Something. 88 00:04:11,590 --> 00:04:13,134 You're gonna feel romance. 89 00:04:15,886 --> 00:04:19,682 Quentin is above all a romantic. 90 00:04:19,682 --> 00:04:21,934 First script, True Romance, 91 00:04:21,934 --> 00:04:24,312 Clarence saving Alabama is the beginning of rescuing 92 00:04:24,312 --> 00:04:26,939 the princess that really pays off in Django coming 93 00:04:26,939 --> 00:04:28,607 back to rescue Broomhilda. 94 00:04:32,570 --> 00:04:36,324 The first script of his I read was Natural Born Killers. 95 00:04:36,324 --> 00:04:37,408 And when I read that I went, 96 00:04:37,408 --> 00:04:40,119 whoa, this guy's amazing. 97 00:04:40,119 --> 00:04:41,620 Then I read True Romance. 98 00:04:41,620 --> 00:04:43,039 I went, what the? 99 00:04:43,039 --> 00:04:44,206 What's going on. 100 00:04:44,206 --> 00:04:45,666 What's wrong with Hollywood? 101 00:04:45,666 --> 00:04:46,751 Where is everybody? 102 00:04:46,751 --> 00:04:49,462 You'd take home a slog of twenty scripts a weekend 103 00:04:49,462 --> 00:04:54,759 and you're looking for that thing that jumps off 104 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:56,636 the page where the characters are alive, 105 00:04:56,636 --> 00:04:58,429 where the dialogue doesn't feel trite. 106 00:04:58,429 --> 00:05:00,264 Every kid wants to give you a script 107 00:05:00,264 --> 00:05:01,974 and you- you- you with the best intentions, 108 00:05:01,974 --> 00:05:03,309 you go, God, I hope this is good. 109 00:05:03,309 --> 00:05:05,394 And then by page two it's like turning like 110 00:05:05,394 --> 00:05:07,772 (groans) oh, I can't turn the page. 111 00:05:07,772 --> 00:05:10,107 This is really just terrible. 112 00:05:10,107 --> 00:05:11,275 Not with Quentin. 113 00:05:11,275 --> 00:05:11,942 No way. 114 00:05:12,276 --> 00:05:14,570 Oh, they're brilliant screenplays. 115 00:05:14,570 --> 00:05:17,948 Can you imagine having to sell those to pay your rent? 116 00:05:17,948 --> 00:05:20,743 I mean, wow, you know. 117 00:05:20,743 --> 00:05:23,913 (inhales) I read a lot. 118 00:05:23,913 --> 00:05:26,123 (exhales) Especially about things 119 00:05:26,123 --> 00:05:26,999 about history. 120 00:05:29,335 --> 00:05:31,420 I find that shit fascinating. 121 00:05:33,047 --> 00:05:33,756 Here's a fact. 122 00:05:33,756 --> 00:05:35,966 I don't know whether you know or not. 123 00:05:35,966 --> 00:05:36,550 Well... 124 00:05:39,887 --> 00:05:43,933 Sicilians were spawned by niggers. 125 00:05:47,645 --> 00:05:51,899 Uh, come again? 126 00:05:52,316 --> 00:05:54,652 (laughs) 127 00:05:54,652 --> 00:05:56,362 You look at the stuff that Quentin writes. 128 00:05:56,362 --> 00:05:58,406 If it was on stage, he'd have the Pulitzer. 129 00:05:58,406 --> 00:05:59,448 You know, because it's movies, 130 00:05:59,448 --> 00:06:00,616 everyone said, "Oh, he was in a video store. 131 00:06:00,616 --> 00:06:01,075 He stole." 132 00:06:01,075 --> 00:06:03,494 Which of course launched a thousand people working 133 00:06:03,494 --> 00:06:04,286 in video stores going, 134 00:06:04,286 --> 00:06:05,621 "Oh, I'm gonna be the next Tarantino." 135 00:06:05,621 --> 00:06:07,415 Well, literally, there's Quentin 136 00:06:07,415 --> 00:06:08,541 and there's everyone else. 137 00:06:09,667 --> 00:06:12,128 There's great stories, great characters. 138 00:06:12,128 --> 00:06:13,546 Later on in the story... 139 00:06:13,546 --> 00:06:15,756 Clearly in True Romance, 140 00:06:15,756 --> 00:06:18,300 Clarence is a surrogate for Quentin. 141 00:06:19,218 --> 00:06:22,722 You see his love of cinema present in his voice 142 00:06:22,722 --> 00:06:24,640 as he expertly carries you through his films. 143 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,642 (overlapping) Oh! Ooh. You have three kung-fu moves. 144 00:06:26,642 --> 00:06:29,687 In the original draft, his version of True Romance, 145 00:06:29,687 --> 00:06:31,397 it was non-linear storytelling. 146 00:06:31,397 --> 00:06:33,357 The audience is ahead of the characters 147 00:06:33,357 --> 00:06:34,817 and on the edge of their seat 148 00:06:34,817 --> 00:06:36,819 'cause they know something bad's coming. 149 00:06:36,819 --> 00:06:40,406 And Tony Scott in his adaptation made it linear, 150 00:06:40,406 --> 00:06:42,491 and Quentin loves True Romance, 151 00:06:42,491 --> 00:06:44,410 but Clarence died in Quentin's version. 152 00:06:44,410 --> 00:06:46,787 Sweetie! (sobs) 153 00:06:46,787 --> 00:06:47,872 He had sold True Romance. 154 00:06:47,872 --> 00:06:49,123 He was hoping to direct it. 155 00:06:49,123 --> 00:06:50,040 Baby! 156 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,500 He wasn't gonna be able to. 157 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:53,711 He couldn't get anywhere with Natural Born Killers. 158 00:06:53,711 --> 00:06:56,005 Um, he couldn't get that going to direct, also. 159 00:06:56,005 --> 00:06:58,674 And he wrote Reservoir Dogs so that it would be 160 00:06:58,674 --> 00:07:00,092 set in one contained place, 161 00:07:00,092 --> 00:07:01,635 so that no matter what happened, 162 00:07:01,635 --> 00:07:03,179 he was gonna direct this movie 163 00:07:03,179 --> 00:07:04,847 with the twenty thousand dollars he had made on 164 00:07:04,847 --> 00:07:08,601 Golden Girls residuals for being an Elvis impersonator. 165 00:07:08,601 --> 00:07:17,651 (sings) I do love you with all my heart. 166 00:07:17,651 --> 00:07:19,028 I read a script of 167 00:07:19,028 --> 00:07:22,781 Reservoir Dogs and I just hoped that the writer 168 00:07:22,781 --> 00:07:24,909 who said he was going to be the director 169 00:07:24,909 --> 00:07:27,411 was really a director. 170 00:07:27,411 --> 00:07:29,622 I introduced him to my friend Lawrence Bender, 171 00:07:29,622 --> 00:07:36,128 and Lawrence got Reservoir Dogs all up and running. 172 00:07:36,128 --> 00:07:39,298 And Lawrence said, "Give me a month. 173 00:07:39,298 --> 00:07:41,509 I know somebody who knows Harvey Keitel." 174 00:07:41,509 --> 00:07:42,968 And Harvey said yes. 175 00:08:03,864 --> 00:08:06,158 I was pumping gas, man. 176 00:08:06,158 --> 00:08:08,202 I was driving a tow truck and, 177 00:08:08,202 --> 00:08:11,997 uh, I had done Thelma and Louise 178 00:08:11,997 --> 00:08:15,543 and I had done some episodic TV. 179 00:08:15,543 --> 00:08:19,672 And I got that thing and, you know, 180 00:08:19,672 --> 00:08:22,508 I- I- I'd never read anything like it in my life. 181 00:08:22,508 --> 00:08:25,135 These guys and they're named after colors. 182 00:08:25,135 --> 00:08:30,558 Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, 183 00:08:30,558 --> 00:08:33,143 Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink. 184 00:08:33,143 --> 00:08:34,311 Why am I Mr. Pink? 185 00:08:34,311 --> 00:08:35,896 And I remember my agent, she was saying, 186 00:08:35,896 --> 00:08:39,858 "Well, you know, they all kill each other at the end and, 187 00:08:39,858 --> 00:08:41,151 (clicks tongue) you know, 188 00:08:41,151 --> 00:08:43,862 there's no money and, uh, you know, 189 00:08:43,862 --> 00:08:46,532 nobody's ever heard of this Quentin guy and... 190 00:08:46,532 --> 00:08:48,117 You have no way of knowing 191 00:08:48,117 --> 00:08:51,036 with a first time director whether they can direct or not. 192 00:08:51,036 --> 00:08:52,204 You never know. 193 00:08:52,204 --> 00:08:56,166 But Quentin, even then, prior to making any film, 194 00:08:56,166 --> 00:08:58,836 knew every actor's resume. 195 00:08:58,836 --> 00:09:00,004 This guy was in this. 196 00:09:00,004 --> 00:09:02,381 I want this guy from this, and this Lawrence Tierney 197 00:09:02,381 --> 00:09:04,216 was in Dillinger and I want him. 198 00:09:04,216 --> 00:09:07,011 He just set about putting together the ensemble 199 00:09:07,011 --> 00:09:10,139 and it came out exactly the way he wanted it. 200 00:09:11,557 --> 00:09:13,851 I don't know why he had me stuck in his head to play 201 00:09:13,851 --> 00:09:17,771 Mr. Blonde, 'cause I didn't want to play Mr. Blonde. 202 00:09:17,771 --> 00:09:20,941 I didn't want to get shot by Tim Roth, you know. 203 00:09:20,941 --> 00:09:22,735 I don't want to be killed by Tim Roth. 204 00:09:22,735 --> 00:09:25,571 I was like, hey, man, "Who's Tim Roth?" 205 00:09:25,571 --> 00:09:27,323 I went along and met with him 206 00:09:27,323 --> 00:09:29,158 and- and Harvey Keitel. 207 00:09:29,158 --> 00:09:32,328 And they wanted me to read and I wouldn't read for it. 208 00:09:32,328 --> 00:09:34,914 I'm very bad at auditioning. 209 00:09:34,914 --> 00:09:36,874 I got to memorize all of this? 210 00:09:36,874 --> 00:09:38,542 There's over four fuckin' pages of this shit. 211 00:09:38,542 --> 00:09:40,210 And they pushed, you know, they were pushing me. 212 00:09:40,210 --> 00:09:42,421 And so, me and Quentin went and got some food 213 00:09:42,421 --> 00:09:44,882 and then some beer, and then we went down to a pub near me 214 00:09:44,882 --> 00:09:45,924 and we got more beer. 215 00:09:45,924 --> 00:09:48,636 And we read every character in the script 216 00:09:48,636 --> 00:09:49,637 I don't know how many times. 217 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,264 I'd let Harvey Keitel kill me, 218 00:09:52,264 --> 00:09:55,267 but I don't, I'm not getting killed by Tim Roth. 219 00:10:03,192 --> 00:10:06,403 I was on the floor in a disproportionate 220 00:10:06,403 --> 00:10:08,280 amount of blood to what you can actually 221 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:09,949 contain in a human body. 222 00:10:09,949 --> 00:10:11,659 At the end of the day, one day, 223 00:10:11,659 --> 00:10:13,827 we- we- we hugged each other. 224 00:10:13,827 --> 00:10:16,246 And, you know, we're both covered with blood, 225 00:10:16,246 --> 00:10:17,790 but it's- it's syrup, basically. 226 00:10:17,790 --> 00:10:18,707 It's- it's fake. 227 00:10:18,707 --> 00:10:20,918 It's stage blood and so when it starts to dry 228 00:10:20,918 --> 00:10:23,170 a little bit it gets extremely sticky. 229 00:10:23,170 --> 00:10:26,382 And we were hugging each other, like, 230 00:10:26,382 --> 00:10:28,884 you know, doing the big guy hug thing 231 00:10:28,884 --> 00:10:31,261 and we- we couldn't get apart. 232 00:10:31,261 --> 00:10:32,888 We were stuck together. 233 00:10:32,888 --> 00:10:34,848 (laughs) 234 00:10:34,848 --> 00:10:36,558 And the wardrobe people were convinced that 235 00:10:36,558 --> 00:10:39,061 if we forcefully separated that it would tear 236 00:10:39,061 --> 00:10:41,313 the clothes apart, and they didn't have 237 00:10:41,313 --> 00:10:42,940 a lot of budget for wardrobe. 238 00:10:42,940 --> 00:10:44,108 In fact, that was my suit. 239 00:10:46,151 --> 00:10:49,571 He told us to come to work in a black suit with white shirts. 240 00:10:49,571 --> 00:10:50,864 They gave us the ties. 241 00:10:50,864 --> 00:10:51,573 That was about it. 242 00:10:51,573 --> 00:10:53,117 And if you watch the movie, 243 00:10:53,117 --> 00:10:56,412 Steve Buscemi has black jeans on. 244 00:10:56,412 --> 00:10:58,622 Those aren't- aren't- aren't suit pants. 245 00:10:58,622 --> 00:11:00,874 They're black jeans, man. 246 00:11:00,874 --> 00:11:03,752 And my suit, the jacket or the pants, 247 00:11:03,752 --> 00:11:04,878 don't go together. 248 00:11:04,878 --> 00:11:06,463 They're from two different suits. 249 00:11:06,463 --> 00:11:08,841 When I see the movie, that's all I remember is 250 00:11:08,841 --> 00:11:10,426 my pants were too tight, man. 251 00:11:10,426 --> 00:11:12,010 They were making me crazy. 252 00:11:12,010 --> 00:11:14,096 And I didn't have black shoes. 253 00:11:14,096 --> 00:11:15,097 He wanted everyone to have black shoes. 254 00:11:15,097 --> 00:11:16,181 I didn't have any. 255 00:11:16,181 --> 00:11:19,101 But I had black cowboy boots, see. 256 00:11:19,101 --> 00:11:21,437 So that's how the razor ended up 257 00:11:21,437 --> 00:11:22,855 being in the boot, 258 00:11:22,855 --> 00:11:24,857 because what am I gonna do with this razor? 259 00:11:24,857 --> 00:11:26,024 Where is it gonna come from. 260 00:11:26,024 --> 00:11:27,526 You know that's how that happened. 261 00:11:28,444 --> 00:11:31,155 In the script it said, "Mr. Blonde dances 262 00:11:31,155 --> 00:11:34,450 maniacally around the manacled cop." 263 00:11:34,450 --> 00:11:37,369 And every time we got to the part of the rehearsal 264 00:11:37,369 --> 00:11:38,787 where that was about to happen, 265 00:11:38,787 --> 00:11:41,123 I would say, "Quentin, I don't know what to do." 266 00:11:41,123 --> 00:11:42,374 And he'd go, "No, no, no. 267 00:11:42,374 --> 00:11:43,625 We'll- we'll- we'll shoot another day. 268 00:11:43,625 --> 00:11:44,752 We'll shoot another day." 269 00:11:44,752 --> 00:11:46,670 He didn't want to do, um, the dancing. 270 00:11:47,588 --> 00:11:48,297 Didn't want to do it. 271 00:11:49,131 --> 00:11:49,757 Iconic. 272 00:11:50,507 --> 00:11:51,091 Right? 273 00:11:51,091 --> 00:11:52,384 Yeah. I was like, "Fuck, man. 274 00:11:52,384 --> 00:11:54,845 I'll do it," (laughs) 275 00:11:54,845 --> 00:11:56,096 from the floor. 276 00:11:56,096 --> 00:11:59,850 I asked him, I said, um, "What's the music 277 00:11:59,850 --> 00:12:02,436 you're gonna play over this whole thing?" 278 00:12:02,436 --> 00:12:04,563 And he said, uh, "Well..." 279 00:12:04,563 --> 00:12:07,232 he said, "I really want, uh, Stealers Wheel. 280 00:12:07,232 --> 00:12:08,692 I want to do "Stuck In The Middle." 281 00:12:08,692 --> 00:12:10,944 And I said, "Why don't you play it for me." 282 00:12:10,944 --> 00:12:12,780 And so they put it on a boom box. 283 00:12:12,780 --> 00:12:16,074 That's actually how it's actually cued in the movie. 284 00:12:16,074 --> 00:12:19,411 And so I slowly started to stand up and I sang while 285 00:12:19,411 --> 00:12:22,247 I started to suddenly do my version of a maniacal dance. 286 00:12:22,247 --> 00:12:26,376 (sings) Well, I don't know why I came here tonight I got... 287 00:12:26,376 --> 00:12:28,754 Honestly, I don't know where it came from. 288 00:12:28,754 --> 00:12:29,546 I honestly don't. 289 00:12:29,546 --> 00:12:32,591 (sings) And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs 290 00:12:32,591 --> 00:12:34,259 I can't dance, which is obvious, 291 00:12:34,259 --> 00:12:35,886 and- and then sort--I just went with it, 292 00:12:35,886 --> 00:12:37,012 'cause I felt like it was working 293 00:12:37,012 --> 00:12:38,180 and I didn't hear him say, "cut". 294 00:12:38,180 --> 00:12:39,848 (sings) ...stuck in the middle with you. 295 00:12:39,848 --> 00:12:41,433 I felt really respected. 296 00:12:41,433 --> 00:12:43,060 And the fact that he let me do that, 297 00:12:43,060 --> 00:12:44,812 I mean, I- I loved him for that. 298 00:12:44,812 --> 00:12:47,022 Even the- the ear thing. 299 00:12:47,022 --> 00:12:50,067 He said, "Okay, step in the frame with the ear." 300 00:12:50,067 --> 00:12:52,486 So I walk in the frame and I have it in my hand, 301 00:12:52,486 --> 00:12:54,154 which is a horrifying moment, you know. 302 00:12:54,154 --> 00:12:55,906 Oh, my God. 303 00:12:55,906 --> 00:12:57,699 And he's going, "Throw it. 304 00:12:57,699 --> 00:12:58,158 Throw it. 305 00:12:58,158 --> 00:12:59,076 Throw it." 306 00:12:59,076 --> 00:13:01,703 And I didn't really want to throw it, 307 00:13:01,703 --> 00:13:04,706 but I couldn't think of anything interesting to do. 308 00:13:04,706 --> 00:13:06,708 And so I spoke in it. 309 00:13:06,708 --> 00:13:07,751 Hey, what's going on? 310 00:13:07,751 --> 00:13:09,294 (groans) You hear that? 311 00:13:09,294 --> 00:13:11,046 (groans) (laughs) So then I threw it. 312 00:13:11,046 --> 00:13:13,757 And I was thinking, God, if you were that guy, 313 00:13:13,757 --> 00:13:15,134 if someone did that to you, 314 00:13:15,134 --> 00:13:16,552 how horrible would that be? 315 00:13:16,552 --> 00:13:18,136 It was a terrifying movie. 316 00:13:18,136 --> 00:13:19,555 As an audience, 317 00:13:19,555 --> 00:13:22,307 we had never seen anything like that really. 318 00:13:22,307 --> 00:13:27,688 It felt so new and so exciting and explosive 319 00:13:27,688 --> 00:13:30,357 and dynamic in just the dialogue. 320 00:13:30,357 --> 00:13:32,109 Give me that fuckin' thing. 321 00:13:32,109 --> 00:13:33,819 Now what the hell do you think you're doin'? 322 00:13:33,819 --> 00:13:34,444 Give me my book back. 323 00:13:34,444 --> 00:13:35,737 I'm sick of fuckin' hearing it. 324 00:13:35,737 --> 00:13:37,948 Joe, I'll give it back to you when we leave. 325 00:13:37,948 --> 00:13:39,241 What do you mean when we leave? 326 00:13:39,241 --> 00:13:40,284 Give me it back now. 327 00:13:40,284 --> 00:13:42,035 For the past fifteen minutes now, 328 00:13:42,035 --> 00:13:45,664 you've been droning on about names, Toby. 329 00:13:45,664 --> 00:13:46,415 Toby? 330 00:13:46,415 --> 00:13:48,166 Once we started shooting Reservoir Dogs... 331 00:13:48,166 --> 00:13:48,959 ...and I remember just being 332 00:13:48,959 --> 00:13:50,794 a couple days in, 333 00:13:50,794 --> 00:13:54,506 and I pulled Harvey Keitel aside and I said, 334 00:13:54,506 --> 00:13:56,091 "Harvey, I'm so excited." 335 00:13:56,091 --> 00:13:58,176 And he said, "Well, why are you so excited?" 336 00:13:58,176 --> 00:14:00,637 And I said, "Well, I never imagined 337 00:14:00,637 --> 00:14:03,473 that what we would do on the film would better 338 00:14:03,473 --> 00:14:05,434 the experience that I had of sitting alone 339 00:14:05,434 --> 00:14:07,561 in my room reading the script." 340 00:14:07,561 --> 00:14:09,855 I've got Madonna's big dick coming out of my left ear 341 00:14:09,855 --> 00:14:12,566 and Toby the Jack, I don't know what, 342 00:14:12,566 --> 00:14:13,609 comin' out of my right. 343 00:14:13,609 --> 00:14:15,819 And Harvey Keitel said, "Of course, 344 00:14:15,819 --> 00:14:16,778 it's better than that. 345 00:14:16,778 --> 00:14:17,571 I'm here." 346 00:14:17,571 --> 00:14:18,363 (laughs) 347 00:14:18,363 --> 00:14:20,532 There's just so much good stuff in them. 348 00:14:20,532 --> 00:14:22,951 No only visually, but, and not only 349 00:14:22,951 --> 00:14:25,370 what the actors say, but what they do 350 00:14:25,370 --> 00:14:29,249 and how they do it and how the plot unfolds. 351 00:14:29,249 --> 00:14:32,377 I think the reason that every critic 352 00:14:32,377 --> 00:14:36,173 and journalist went crazy for Reservoir Dogs 353 00:14:36,173 --> 00:14:37,799 is rightfully so. 354 00:14:37,799 --> 00:14:41,845 It was the debut of an extraordinary new voice. 355 00:14:41,845 --> 00:14:49,186 And, you know, it was our nineties Auteur Indie cinema, 356 00:14:49,186 --> 00:14:51,939 you know, the equivalent of the French New Wave, 357 00:14:51,939 --> 00:14:54,983 breaking any rules that he wants. 358 00:14:54,983 --> 00:14:56,109 It was thrilling. 359 00:14:57,736 --> 00:15:02,449 (groans) 360 00:15:02,449 --> 00:15:04,326 We were walking back to the trailers. 361 00:15:04,326 --> 00:15:07,245 I remember Harvey, he says, "This is good, right?" 362 00:15:07,245 --> 00:15:08,497 And- and, (chuckles) I went, 363 00:15:08,497 --> 00:15:10,540 "Yes, really fuckin' good." 364 00:15:10,540 --> 00:15:12,292 (chuckles) Who's a tough guy? 365 00:15:12,292 --> 00:15:14,294 (wheezes) Who's a tough guy? 366 00:15:14,294 --> 00:15:16,296 (wheezes) And he went, "Don't jinx it. 367 00:15:16,296 --> 00:15:16,838 Don't jinx it. 368 00:15:16,838 --> 00:15:17,631 Whatever you do, don't jinx it." 369 00:15:17,631 --> 00:15:18,674 I said, "Okay." 370 00:15:18,674 --> 00:15:22,260 But it was, the word was out on this- on this guy. 371 00:15:22,260 --> 00:15:23,929 So when we went to France with... 372 00:15:23,929 --> 00:15:24,846 ..Reservoir Dogs, 373 00:15:24,846 --> 00:15:27,808 it was, um, it was chosen as an official selection 374 00:15:27,808 --> 00:15:30,519 of the film festival, which is a very prestigious 375 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:31,937 place to be, particularly for 376 00:15:31,937 --> 00:15:33,480 a first time director. 377 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,190 So we showed our film in the Palais, 378 00:15:35,190 --> 00:15:38,026 and in the three days prior to that, 379 00:15:38,026 --> 00:15:40,946 Quentin and Lawrence and I are walking around Cannes 380 00:15:40,946 --> 00:15:43,282 and walking down the Croisette and looking at 381 00:15:43,282 --> 00:15:45,492 different movies and going to different screenings 382 00:15:45,492 --> 00:15:46,785 and just... Hey. 383 00:15:46,785 --> 00:15:48,036 ...having a good old time. 384 00:15:48,036 --> 00:15:52,374 And then we screen the film as a midnight special 385 00:15:52,374 --> 00:15:53,917 screening in the Palais. 386 00:15:53,917 --> 00:15:56,962 And the day after that, 387 00:15:56,962 --> 00:15:59,756 when we would walk down the street as we were 388 00:15:59,756 --> 00:16:01,717 goofy guys wandering around, 389 00:16:01,717 --> 00:16:04,136 you'd start to hear people going, "Tarantino! 390 00:16:04,136 --> 00:16:05,512 Tarantino!" 391 00:16:05,512 --> 00:16:09,099 And thus the legend of Quentin began. 392 00:16:09,099 --> 00:16:12,436 The Auteur was born somewhat as it should be 393 00:16:12,436 --> 00:16:14,229 in Cannes. 394 00:16:14,229 --> 00:16:18,275 The day after it screened, I got a call from Mario Kassar 395 00:16:18,275 --> 00:16:20,110 who is head of Carolco and he said, 396 00:16:20,110 --> 00:16:23,196 "All of our directors on our boat, 397 00:16:23,196 --> 00:16:26,575 um, want to meet Quentin. 398 00:16:26,575 --> 00:16:30,245 Like what is this movie you made and who is this guy?" 399 00:16:30,245 --> 00:16:32,247 And I said, well, I'll bring him by. 400 00:16:32,247 --> 00:16:36,084 So we showed up at the boat and Renny Harlin 401 00:16:36,084 --> 00:16:38,253 and Oliver Stone and James Cameron 402 00:16:38,253 --> 00:16:41,340 and Paul Verhoeven were all there 403 00:16:41,340 --> 00:16:44,676 and they just wanted to meet Quentin. 404 00:16:44,676 --> 00:16:46,636 And, suddenly, Quentin has, 405 00:16:46,636 --> 00:16:47,846 not only a seat at the table, 406 00:16:47,846 --> 00:16:50,474 but is kind of running the table and these guys are 407 00:16:50,474 --> 00:16:52,642 so interested in Quentin. 408 00:16:52,642 --> 00:16:54,895 And this is how it sort of all began. 409 00:16:54,895 --> 00:16:56,396 Quentin came back 410 00:16:56,396 --> 00:16:59,066 from Cannes after Reservoir Dogs. 411 00:16:59,066 --> 00:17:00,484 Now that was a fascinating story, 412 00:17:00,484 --> 00:17:02,819 'cause he was crashing on my couch, right? 413 00:17:02,819 --> 00:17:05,197 So I was, I had to get, uh, 414 00:17:05,197 --> 00:17:07,032 the "Hollywood Reporter", "Variety", 415 00:17:07,032 --> 00:17:10,118 all of the- the magazines, "L.A. Weekly", 416 00:17:10,118 --> 00:17:12,079 all the stuff that had articles on Reservoir Dogs. 417 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:13,789 Literally, you couldn't believe how much stuff. 418 00:17:13,789 --> 00:17:14,456 I went, "Oh wait. 419 00:17:14,456 --> 00:17:15,624 This is like a joke." 420 00:17:15,624 --> 00:17:17,334 He went away to Cannes 421 00:17:17,334 --> 00:17:19,127 just another independent filmmaker 422 00:17:19,127 --> 00:17:20,504 and came back like a star. 423 00:17:23,173 --> 00:17:25,967 Miramax was the company that stepped up to 424 00:17:25,967 --> 00:17:27,302 take Reservoir Dogs. 425 00:17:27,302 --> 00:17:30,889 Before that, you know, Quentin was pretty much 426 00:17:30,889 --> 00:17:34,184 nobody wanted to give him a chance to do fuck all. 427 00:17:34,184 --> 00:17:36,394 So that started the bond of Quentin 428 00:17:36,394 --> 00:17:38,355 and the Weinstein Brothers. 429 00:17:41,775 --> 00:17:44,778 "The whole mystical, 430 00:17:44,778 --> 00:17:48,782 shamanistic thing that I thought directing was went 'poof'. 431 00:17:48,782 --> 00:17:50,325 I realized I can do that." - QT 432 00:17:50,325 --> 00:17:52,452 We were in a hotel room on the road 433 00:17:52,452 --> 00:17:54,704 with Reservoir Dogs 434 00:17:54,704 --> 00:17:56,790 and he's got his legal pads out. 435 00:17:56,790 --> 00:17:57,999 And his thing, you know, 436 00:17:57,999 --> 00:17:59,584 the way that he does his scripts. 437 00:17:59,584 --> 00:18:02,712 He starts reading all these characters and stage direction. 438 00:18:02,712 --> 00:18:04,172 I love you, Pumpkin. 439 00:18:04,172 --> 00:18:05,924 And I love you, Honey Bunny. 440 00:18:05,924 --> 00:18:07,050 And it's Pulp Fiction. 441 00:18:07,050 --> 00:18:08,510 Everybody be cool. This is a robbery. 442 00:18:08,510 --> 00:18:09,219 What? 443 00:18:09,219 --> 00:18:13,390 Any of you fuckin' pricks move and I'll execute 444 00:18:13,390 --> 00:18:15,058 every one of ya motherfuckers. 445 00:18:15,058 --> 00:18:17,519 Quentin says, "This is my next thing. 446 00:18:17,519 --> 00:18:22,774 This is what I'm gonna do." 447 00:18:22,774 --> 00:18:25,110 There was an eagerness by many financiers 448 00:18:25,110 --> 00:18:28,488 to make Quentin's next movie. 449 00:18:28,488 --> 00:18:29,823 We had agreed, 450 00:18:29,823 --> 00:18:31,533 uh, Harvey Weinstein agreed, 451 00:18:31,533 --> 00:18:33,243 uh, to finance the film. 452 00:18:33,243 --> 00:18:36,496 They never interfered with his material. 453 00:18:36,496 --> 00:18:39,875 (chuckles) There's subject matter 454 00:18:39,875 --> 00:18:44,379 and dialogue in Quentin's pictures that really nobody else 455 00:18:44,379 --> 00:18:47,924 could get away with doing, especially a white guy. 456 00:18:47,924 --> 00:18:49,301 Did you notice a sign on the front of 457 00:18:49,301 --> 00:18:51,303 my house that said, "Dead Nigger Storage." 458 00:18:51,303 --> 00:18:52,762 Jimmy, you know I ain't seen no shit. 459 00:18:52,762 --> 00:18:54,806 Did you notice a sign on the front of my house 460 00:18:54,806 --> 00:18:57,350 that said "Dead Nigger Storage?" 461 00:18:57,350 --> 00:18:58,852 No. 462 00:18:58,852 --> 00:19:01,188 I got the script and ... 463 00:19:01,188 --> 00:19:01,855 ...I kind of sat 464 00:19:01,855 --> 00:19:03,273 there and stared at it. 465 00:19:03,273 --> 00:19:05,275 When I was done I was like, 466 00:19:05,275 --> 00:19:08,028 "Oh, there's no fuckin' way the script that's good." 467 00:19:08,028 --> 00:19:10,947 I'm just readin' it like that because he told me 468 00:19:10,947 --> 00:19:12,240 he wrote this part for me. 469 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,619 You know what they call a- a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, 470 00:19:15,619 --> 00:19:16,953 uh, in Paris? 471 00:19:16,953 --> 00:19:18,580 They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese? 472 00:19:18,580 --> 00:19:18,914 No, man. 473 00:19:18,914 --> 00:19:19,956 They got the metric system. 474 00:19:19,956 --> 00:19:22,209 They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is. 475 00:19:22,209 --> 00:19:23,168 Then what do they call it? 476 00:19:23,168 --> 00:19:26,004 They call it, uh, The Royale with Cheese. 477 00:19:26,004 --> 00:19:27,380 Royale with Cheese. 478 00:19:27,380 --> 00:19:28,089 That's right. 479 00:19:28,089 --> 00:19:29,966 Second time it was just as amazing. 480 00:19:29,966 --> 00:19:33,220 So it's like, (exhales air), 481 00:19:33,220 --> 00:19:34,846 okay. 482 00:19:34,846 --> 00:19:38,683 If Harvey Weinstein has the balls to make this movie, 483 00:19:38,683 --> 00:19:40,393 this movie's gonna be awesome. 484 00:19:40,393 --> 00:19:42,145 I know my friends are gonna love it. 485 00:19:42,145 --> 00:19:43,855 He had built a real fan base 486 00:19:43,855 --> 00:19:46,566 on home video by the time Pulp Fiction came out. 487 00:19:46,566 --> 00:19:48,401 But I think he learned something, too. 488 00:19:48,401 --> 00:19:50,403 Watching the film with enough audiences 489 00:19:50,403 --> 00:19:53,156 when he went and toured film festivals, 490 00:19:53,156 --> 00:19:55,659 he realized that he needed to give the audience 491 00:19:55,659 --> 00:19:57,744 permission to laugh. 492 00:19:57,744 --> 00:19:59,746 The dude's head gets blown off in the back of the car. 493 00:19:59,746 --> 00:20:01,248 I mean people laugh at that shit and then they 494 00:20:01,248 --> 00:20:02,624 catch themselves and go, "Oh, shit. 495 00:20:02,624 --> 00:20:03,458 I can't laugh at that." 496 00:20:03,458 --> 00:20:04,334 Oh! 497 00:20:04,334 --> 00:20:05,627 What the fuck's happenin'? 498 00:20:05,627 --> 00:20:07,462 Ah, man. Oh, shit, man. 499 00:20:07,462 --> 00:20:09,047 Oh, man, I shot Marvin in the face. 500 00:20:09,047 --> 00:20:10,257 Why the fuck'd you do that? 501 00:20:10,257 --> 00:20:13,885 And it's cool, too, because it's not CGI blood. 502 00:20:13,885 --> 00:20:16,846 He still likes to use squibs and blood packs and stuff, 503 00:20:16,846 --> 00:20:20,934 so I mean I could be twenty-five feet across the room 504 00:20:20,934 --> 00:20:22,727 and get blood splattered on me from shootin' 505 00:20:22,727 --> 00:20:24,354 somebody on the other side of the room, 506 00:20:24,354 --> 00:20:26,314 which was like awesome. 507 00:20:26,314 --> 00:20:27,816 You're sending The Wolf? 508 00:20:27,816 --> 00:20:30,235 Don't you feel better, motherfucker? 509 00:20:30,235 --> 00:20:32,279 Shit yeah, Negro. 510 00:20:32,279 --> 00:20:33,822 That's all you had to say. 511 00:20:35,156 --> 00:20:35,865 Like you have to call 512 00:20:35,865 --> 00:20:37,284 someone because you accidentally shot 513 00:20:37,284 --> 00:20:39,244 someone's head off is amazing, 514 00:20:39,244 --> 00:20:40,870 and then that it becomes, like, 515 00:20:40,870 --> 00:20:45,333 he's so blasé about cleaning bits of brain up. 516 00:20:45,333 --> 00:20:46,918 Oh, man! 517 00:20:46,918 --> 00:20:49,379 I will never forgive your ass for this shit. 518 00:20:49,379 --> 00:20:50,922 Because he always intended it to be funny, 519 00:20:50,922 --> 00:20:53,133 but people sort of felt a little bit uncomfortable. 520 00:20:53,133 --> 00:20:54,134 Am I allowed to laugh? 521 00:20:54,134 --> 00:20:56,761 Am I sick if I'm laughing? 522 00:20:56,761 --> 00:20:58,054 You know, what's going on? 523 00:20:58,054 --> 00:21:01,224 And with Pulp, intentionally, 524 00:21:01,224 --> 00:21:02,934 he really let everybody in on the joke. 525 00:21:02,934 --> 00:21:04,561 They look like a couple of dorks. 526 00:21:04,561 --> 00:21:06,688 (laughs) (laughs) Ha-ha-ha. 527 00:21:06,688 --> 00:21:08,231 They're your clothes, motherfucker. 528 00:21:08,231 --> 00:21:11,359 I can look at it and say this is one of those 529 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:12,402 gangster characters. 530 00:21:12,402 --> 00:21:14,446 (exhales sharply) This is how he's thinkin', 531 00:21:14,446 --> 00:21:16,031 this is how he's talkin', and this is what his 532 00:21:16,031 --> 00:21:17,157 cadence is. 533 00:21:17,157 --> 00:21:20,619 And I will strike down upon thee with great 534 00:21:20,619 --> 00:21:24,956 vengeance and furious anger those who attempt 535 00:21:24,956 --> 00:21:27,751 to poison and destroy my brothers. 536 00:21:27,751 --> 00:21:32,213 And because I spent so many years doing theater. 537 00:21:32,213 --> 00:21:36,134 And you will know my name is the Lord 538 00:21:36,134 --> 00:21:39,596 when I lay my vengeance upon thee. 539 00:21:39,596 --> 00:21:46,394 (screams) I love a monologue. 540 00:21:46,394 --> 00:21:48,772 I remember when I originally gave this script 541 00:21:48,772 --> 00:21:50,065 to the Weinsteins, Harvey read it 542 00:21:50,065 --> 00:21:52,067 and called me up and said, "You guys are crazy. 543 00:21:52,067 --> 00:21:53,568 You just killed the main character 544 00:21:53,568 --> 00:21:56,237 in the middle of the movie." 545 00:21:56,237 --> 00:22:00,325 (screams) I said, 546 00:22:00,325 --> 00:22:01,076 "Keep reading." 547 00:22:01,076 --> 00:22:03,578 He said, "But you can't kill the main character in 548 00:22:03,578 --> 00:22:05,163 the middle of the movie." 549 00:22:05,163 --> 00:22:06,456 I said, "Keep reading." 550 00:22:06,456 --> 00:22:07,791 He said, "Oh, my God. 551 00:22:07,791 --> 00:22:09,959 He comes back, doesn't he?" 552 00:22:09,959 --> 00:22:11,336 He goes, "Is it a happy ending?" 553 00:22:11,336 --> 00:22:12,962 I said, "It's a happy ending. 554 00:22:14,047 --> 00:22:16,633 And the beauty of Quentin is that when it's time to 555 00:22:16,633 --> 00:22:20,136 shoot the film, though he wrote it and he conceived it 556 00:22:20,136 --> 00:22:21,596 and he knows where it's going... 557 00:22:22,889 --> 00:22:23,640 Hello? 558 00:22:24,724 --> 00:22:28,478 ...the actors are a huge part of that soup 559 00:22:28,478 --> 00:22:30,855 that creates that character of the story. 560 00:22:30,855 --> 00:22:31,606 (on intercom) Vincent? 561 00:22:33,983 --> 00:22:36,236 Vincent? 562 00:22:36,236 --> 00:22:38,238 I'm on the intercom. 563 00:22:38,238 --> 00:22:41,616 And he wrote the part 564 00:22:41,616 --> 00:22:45,829 that John Travolta played in that movie for Michael. 565 00:22:45,829 --> 00:22:48,039 And Michael didn't do it. 566 00:22:48,039 --> 00:22:50,625 I was already committed to Wyatt Earp. 567 00:22:50,625 --> 00:22:53,086 And now here's Quentin wants me to do Pulp Fiction. 568 00:22:53,086 --> 00:22:55,672 And they were both going at the same time. 569 00:22:55,672 --> 00:22:58,007 You know look at Travolta in Pulp Fiction. 570 00:22:58,007 --> 00:23:00,218 It's one of the most extraordinary performances 571 00:23:00,218 --> 00:23:03,555 in a- in a film that's filled to the brim 572 00:23:03,555 --> 00:23:05,390 with extraordinary performances. 573 00:23:05,390 --> 00:23:10,478 (gasps) (screams) John had to be convinced. 574 00:23:10,478 --> 00:23:12,147 But the moment that they met, 575 00:23:12,147 --> 00:23:14,774 it was clear that it- it was their destiny to- 576 00:23:14,774 --> 00:23:15,775 to work together. 577 00:23:15,775 --> 00:23:19,654 Isn't it true that a part of John Travolta being in it, 578 00:23:19,654 --> 00:23:22,407 it became John's comeback. 579 00:23:22,407 --> 00:23:25,410 He was doing movies about talking babies and, 580 00:23:25,410 --> 00:23:28,163 suddenly, he's, you know, Vincent Vega. 581 00:23:28,163 --> 00:23:29,873 You know he had that wig on. 582 00:23:29,873 --> 00:23:33,877 Nobody'd ever seen Travolta with a fuckin' gun. 583 00:23:35,795 --> 00:23:38,089 And that was a huge, huge reason 584 00:23:38,089 --> 00:23:39,215 why the movie worked. 585 00:23:39,215 --> 00:23:41,426 John Travolta can move like almost nobody else. 586 00:23:42,969 --> 00:23:45,555 The dance scene that Quentin gives him 587 00:23:45,555 --> 00:23:51,227 is so incredible because Quentin gets what this guy can do 588 00:23:51,227 --> 00:23:52,520 and lets him do it. 589 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,397 That was neat, man, that whole thing and, 590 00:23:54,397 --> 00:23:56,107 uh, I- I wouldn't have come up with that, 591 00:23:56,107 --> 00:23:57,484 you know. 592 00:23:57,484 --> 00:23:59,694 The twist wouldn't haven't have been exactly the same. 593 00:23:59,694 --> 00:24:01,446 He would have had to change the script that 594 00:24:01,446 --> 00:24:03,281 they don't win the dance contest. 595 00:24:05,742 --> 00:24:07,410 When you're on a set and working with Quentin, 596 00:24:07,410 --> 00:24:10,163 he always seemed to me like he kept a very healthy 597 00:24:10,163 --> 00:24:13,541 distance between himself and producer types. 598 00:24:13,541 --> 00:24:15,502 And what Quentin wanted, Quentin got, 599 00:24:15,502 --> 00:24:16,836 deservedly so. 600 00:24:17,796 --> 00:24:18,671 Action! 601 00:24:18,671 --> 00:24:19,923 We were a bit into production 602 00:24:19,923 --> 00:24:22,091 and Harvey Weinstein came to visit. 603 00:24:22,091 --> 00:24:25,678 I purposely wanted to take him to the Jack Rabbit Slim set 604 00:24:25,678 --> 00:24:27,138 because we built it. 605 00:24:27,138 --> 00:24:28,181 It's cool. 606 00:24:28,181 --> 00:24:29,599 It's really filmy. 607 00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:32,352 And Quentin isn't the "build sets" kind of guy. 608 00:24:32,352 --> 00:24:34,562 He's the "find a real place and do it". 609 00:24:34,562 --> 00:24:37,482 And as we walked in, I didn't tell Harvey what we 610 00:24:37,482 --> 00:24:38,441 were shooting. 611 00:24:38,441 --> 00:24:40,276 And I just remember looking at him and going, 612 00:24:40,276 --> 00:24:42,195 "Welcome to Quentin World." 613 00:24:42,195 --> 00:24:44,906 He just said, "What- what- what is this? 614 00:24:44,906 --> 00:24:46,324 This is crazy." 615 00:24:46,324 --> 00:24:48,910 You know with the race track and the dancers 616 00:24:48,910 --> 00:24:51,454 and the trophies and the characters 617 00:24:51,454 --> 00:24:52,997 imitating other characters. 618 00:24:54,374 --> 00:24:56,459 You know Quentin just has in his head I want people 619 00:24:56,459 --> 00:25:00,338 to sit in the back seat of a nineteen-fifty-seven Cadillac. 620 00:25:00,338 --> 00:25:03,633 And, you know, they need to drink an Amos and Andy shake. 621 00:25:03,633 --> 00:25:06,052 And he comes up with all this stuff in the same way 622 00:25:06,052 --> 00:25:07,595 that he comes up with his own products. 623 00:25:09,138 --> 00:25:09,931 Mm... 624 00:25:11,015 --> 00:25:13,685 This is a tasty burger. 625 00:25:13,685 --> 00:25:16,354 Vincent, have you ever had a Big Kahuna burger? 626 00:25:16,354 --> 00:25:18,940 By the time Pulp Fiction came around, 627 00:25:18,940 --> 00:25:20,900 he was doing his own product placement. 628 00:25:21,568 --> 00:25:22,735 Give me a pack of Red Apples. 629 00:25:22,735 --> 00:25:23,903 Filters? 630 00:25:23,903 --> 00:25:25,029 Nah. 631 00:25:25,029 --> 00:25:26,823 And that's when Red Apple came about. 632 00:25:26,823 --> 00:25:28,950 That's when Kahuna burger came about. 633 00:25:28,950 --> 00:25:31,536 That's when all of that stuff started to happen. 634 00:25:31,536 --> 00:25:34,581 Red Apple tobacco is not a real thing. 635 00:25:34,581 --> 00:25:36,165 That's a Quentin cigarette. 636 00:25:36,165 --> 00:25:39,127 There's a great moment 637 00:25:39,127 --> 00:25:40,837 in Hateful Eight where... 638 00:25:40,837 --> 00:25:43,131 ...Demian Bichir is standing 639 00:25:43,131 --> 00:25:44,674 behind the bar. 640 00:25:44,674 --> 00:25:48,386 And he's having a smoke of Red Apple tobacco. 641 00:25:48,386 --> 00:25:50,013 And he's just standing there like this and he's going, 642 00:25:50,013 --> 00:25:50,638 "Hmm. 643 00:25:50,638 --> 00:25:51,598 This is pretty good." 644 00:25:51,598 --> 00:25:52,724 (chuckles) Like this. 645 00:25:52,724 --> 00:25:56,144 And we got all pissed off because he got to do 646 00:25:56,144 --> 00:25:57,979 the Red Apple moment. 647 00:25:57,979 --> 00:26:00,189 He got to have it himself. 648 00:26:00,189 --> 00:26:02,817 Everybody from costumes down to every detail, 649 00:26:02,817 --> 00:26:04,902 to props, to Red Apple tobacco, 650 00:26:04,902 --> 00:26:08,906 to everything, there's nothing random 651 00:26:08,906 --> 00:26:10,742 about anything in a Quentin movie. 652 00:26:10,742 --> 00:26:13,328 Remember her cutting the ropes off 653 00:26:13,328 --> 00:26:15,038 when she's in the coffin. 654 00:26:15,038 --> 00:26:16,581 That's Mr. Blonde's razor. 655 00:26:16,581 --> 00:26:17,165 It's brilliant, right? 656 00:26:17,165 --> 00:26:18,333 That's cool. 657 00:26:18,333 --> 00:26:20,501 There's a little nod when you're watching Reservoir Dogs. 658 00:26:20,501 --> 00:26:21,669 If you every hear Mr. White, 659 00:26:21,669 --> 00:26:23,087 somebody says, "How's Bama?" 660 00:26:23,087 --> 00:26:24,797 By the way, how's Alabama? 661 00:26:24,797 --> 00:26:25,715 Alabama? 662 00:26:27,008 --> 00:26:30,053 I haven't seen Bama over a year and a half. 663 00:26:30,053 --> 00:26:32,055 And you understand that Alabama left, 664 00:26:32,055 --> 00:26:36,309 met Mr. White, learned about the- the bank heist 665 00:26:36,309 --> 00:26:38,645 or jewelry thief business from him, 666 00:26:38,645 --> 00:26:40,897 and they couldn't be together because she was 667 00:26:40,897 --> 00:26:42,482 still in love with Clarence and she'd be in 668 00:26:42,482 --> 00:26:44,609 love with Clarence for his whole life. 669 00:26:44,609 --> 00:26:47,904 So all these characters live in Quentin's universe. 670 00:26:47,904 --> 00:26:50,406 And Vic here, I mean he's only been nothing 671 00:26:50,406 --> 00:26:54,202 but good luck for us and, that guys a fuckin' rabbit's foot. 672 00:26:54,202 --> 00:26:57,246 Vic Vega, Vincent Vega, the Vega Brothers. 673 00:26:57,246 --> 00:26:59,749 And, uh, how 'bout your fella here? 674 00:26:59,749 --> 00:27:01,084 Vincent Vega. 675 00:27:01,084 --> 00:27:03,336 With film it's not just characters 676 00:27:03,336 --> 00:27:05,963 and it's not just action and it's not just cinema, 677 00:27:05,963 --> 00:27:08,257 but it's celluloid, it's seeing it on the film, 678 00:27:08,257 --> 00:27:10,510 and it's the soundtrack, but also, 679 00:27:10,510 --> 00:27:14,263 amazingly, taking songs they know and reimagining. 680 00:27:14,263 --> 00:27:15,306 (sings) Bow, bow, bow... 681 00:27:15,306 --> 00:27:19,727 ...you'll be a woman soon. (sings)...a woman... 682 00:27:19,727 --> 00:27:23,106 And you just sit there and you just- you can't 683 00:27:23,106 --> 00:27:26,651 believe that you're hearing the song in a new 684 00:27:26,651 --> 00:27:27,694 and different way. 685 00:27:27,694 --> 00:27:29,362 (sings) He's not your kind. (sings) He's not your kind. 686 00:27:29,362 --> 00:27:32,198 And so much of those songs were background on the radio 687 00:27:32,198 --> 00:27:33,866 when you were kids or when you were adults 688 00:27:33,866 --> 00:27:35,326 driving around. 689 00:27:35,326 --> 00:27:38,413 And Quentin takes them and he takes that background, 690 00:27:38,413 --> 00:27:40,748 counterpoints it against something that 691 00:27:40,748 --> 00:27:42,041 it doesn't make sense with. 692 00:27:43,751 --> 00:27:46,129 Or he uses it to emphasize a scene. 693 00:27:46,129 --> 00:27:48,548 What he makes are really rich, 694 00:27:48,548 --> 00:27:51,259 densely textured mosaics. 695 00:27:51,259 --> 00:27:53,761 Try to dissect it, you'd almost undoubtedly miss 696 00:27:53,761 --> 00:27:55,722 so many of the pieces and the ways they interact 697 00:27:55,722 --> 00:27:57,390 with each other and the way they make sense 698 00:27:57,390 --> 00:27:58,099 with each other. 699 00:27:58,099 --> 00:27:58,933 I remember being 700 00:27:58,933 --> 00:28:01,352 on the set of From Dust Till Dawn while they were 701 00:28:01,352 --> 00:28:03,646 shooting that, and I said, and by that time Pulp Fiction 702 00:28:03,646 --> 00:28:04,689 just went through the roof. 703 00:28:04,689 --> 00:28:06,357 I said, "Quentin, did you have any idea 704 00:28:06,357 --> 00:28:06,941 how big this would be? 705 00:28:06,941 --> 00:28:09,902 He goes, (inhales sharply) "Yeah, no." 706 00:28:09,902 --> 00:28:10,737 (laughs) 707 00:28:10,737 --> 00:28:14,490 The Palme d'Or goes to... 708 00:28:14,490 --> 00:28:15,533 ...Pulp Fiction. 709 00:28:51,486 --> 00:28:53,404 What do you do after that masterpiece? 710 00:28:53,404 --> 00:28:54,906 When you know you're damned. 711 00:28:54,906 --> 00:28:55,948 There's, you know, 712 00:28:55,948 --> 00:28:59,202 after Citizen Kane, Welles walks away 713 00:28:59,202 --> 00:29:00,328 from Magnificent Ambersons. 714 00:29:00,328 --> 00:29:01,579 Quentin's made Pulp Fiction. 715 00:29:01,579 --> 00:29:04,749 He's made one of the great films of the last half century. 716 00:29:04,749 --> 00:29:08,127 So what does he do next? 717 00:29:08,127 --> 00:29:12,340 A genre film that in and of itself is really wonderful. 718 00:29:12,340 --> 00:29:14,509 Plays with time, plays with character, 719 00:29:14,509 --> 00:29:16,219 plays with your perceptions, 720 00:29:16,219 --> 00:29:18,846 and he doesn't try and redo Pulp Fiction. 721 00:29:18,846 --> 00:29:20,181 I know he has 722 00:29:20,181 --> 00:29:23,976 this strong Blaxploitation influence in his life. 723 00:29:23,976 --> 00:29:24,644 For God's sake. 724 00:29:24,644 --> 00:29:27,271 People say he makes 725 00:29:27,271 --> 00:29:28,272 revenge movies. 726 00:29:28,272 --> 00:29:31,108 You know, those were sort of revenge movies, 727 00:29:31,108 --> 00:29:32,944 all about gettin' the man or gettin' back at the man Sweet 728 00:29:32,944 --> 00:29:35,196 or gettin' back at the person who did somethin' bad to you. 729 00:29:35,196 --> 00:29:38,783 It's one of those things that makes his movies fun. 730 00:29:38,783 --> 00:29:40,576 And those are the things 731 00:29:40,576 --> 00:29:43,663 that influenced his young cinema experiences, 732 00:29:43,663 --> 00:29:44,956 like mine. 733 00:29:44,956 --> 00:29:46,332 He broke everything down. 734 00:29:46,332 --> 00:29:48,459 He explained, like, "When I was a kid, 735 00:29:48,459 --> 00:29:50,336 my mom dated black guys. 736 00:29:50,336 --> 00:29:52,505 Black guys would try to get in good with my mom, 737 00:29:52,505 --> 00:29:56,551 would take me to, uh, Blaxploitation films 738 00:29:56,551 --> 00:29:57,969 to watch as a kid. 739 00:29:57,969 --> 00:29:59,720 So that's what I grew up on. 740 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,475 So I'm writing what I saw, what's inside my DNA, 741 00:30:04,475 --> 00:30:06,394 and then that's why my characters are 742 00:30:06,394 --> 00:30:07,770 always very strong." 743 00:30:07,770 --> 00:30:08,896 You helped her, didn't you? 744 00:30:08,896 --> 00:30:09,814 When you're sort of bred 745 00:30:09,814 --> 00:30:11,190 into naturally appreciating, 746 00:30:11,190 --> 00:30:13,067 it's not like someone's taught you, 747 00:30:13,067 --> 00:30:16,028 you should respect women, or black people are equal. 748 00:30:16,028 --> 00:30:17,864 Like someone's not teaching you that lesson. 749 00:30:17,864 --> 00:30:19,740 You just know it to be true. 750 00:30:19,740 --> 00:30:21,492 This is how he views the world, 751 00:30:21,492 --> 00:30:25,121 and he paints the world the way he sees it in his movies. 752 00:30:25,121 --> 00:30:28,332 And so the power is this is his truth. 753 00:30:28,332 --> 00:30:30,126 Jackie Brown is in many ways 754 00:30:30,126 --> 00:30:32,712 an ode to the sort of Blaxploitation films 755 00:30:32,712 --> 00:30:33,254 of the period. 756 00:30:33,254 --> 00:30:34,964 And who are you gonna cast? 757 00:30:34,964 --> 00:30:35,798 Pam Grier. 758 00:30:36,841 --> 00:30:38,092 I'd heard about Foxy Brown 759 00:30:38,092 --> 00:30:40,011 and Coffy and all the Pam Grier movie. 760 00:30:40,011 --> 00:30:40,469 You know, of course, 761 00:30:40,469 --> 00:30:41,762 Pam Grier's had a glorious career 762 00:30:41,762 --> 00:30:43,514 even up before Quentin Tarantino. 763 00:30:43,514 --> 00:30:45,683 He just, like, has made her that- that much cooler 764 00:30:45,683 --> 00:30:46,517 in my opinion. 765 00:30:46,517 --> 00:30:48,436 Pam Grier can kick ass, 766 00:30:48,436 --> 00:30:49,061 you know what I mean? 767 00:30:49,061 --> 00:30:51,522 It's not all Foxy Brown and it ain't all, 768 00:30:51,522 --> 00:30:53,107 you know, Straight Outta Compton. 769 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,988 Jackie Brown, to me, that performance is 770 00:30:58,988 --> 00:31:01,407 so amazing and beautiful. 771 00:31:01,407 --> 00:31:03,618 But still like so strong 772 00:31:03,618 --> 00:31:06,746 and so flawed and desperate, 773 00:31:06,746 --> 00:31:08,831 and yet very sort of steely. 774 00:31:08,831 --> 00:31:11,208 I mean he writes women like nobody's business. 775 00:31:11,208 --> 00:31:14,545 In the last forty-five to fifty years, 776 00:31:14,545 --> 00:31:18,925 women have not been given a fair shake in terms of, 777 00:31:18,925 --> 00:31:23,888 uh, leading roles in, uh, movies where we can see 778 00:31:23,888 --> 00:31:25,765 what makes the woman tick. 779 00:31:25,765 --> 00:31:27,224 That's why you came here to kill me. 780 00:31:27,224 --> 00:31:28,226 (chuckles) I ain't come over here to kill you. 781 00:31:28,226 --> 00:31:28,976 Oh, no, that's fine. 782 00:31:28,976 --> 00:31:29,560 It's okay. 783 00:31:30,728 --> 00:31:31,646 Now I forgive you. 784 00:31:31,646 --> 00:31:33,147 That's the thing with Quentin's dialogue. 785 00:31:33,147 --> 00:31:34,231 A couple of men that would be like, 786 00:31:34,231 --> 00:31:36,400 I mean, women don't really talk like that. 787 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:37,526 And I was like (laughs). 788 00:31:37,526 --> 00:31:40,238 Aw, that's cute, (inhales) 'cause we really do. 789 00:31:40,238 --> 00:31:42,740 Now if I have to do more than a year, 790 00:31:42,740 --> 00:31:45,201 you'll pay another one hundred thousand dollars. 791 00:31:45,201 --> 00:31:46,702 Women would come up to us and be like, 792 00:31:46,702 --> 00:31:47,495 "Oh, my God. 793 00:31:47,495 --> 00:31:49,622 How- Is he a woman on the inside?" 794 00:31:49,622 --> 00:31:50,748 I'm like yeah, he's kind of, 795 00:31:50,748 --> 00:31:51,958 he's a bit of woman on the inside. 796 00:31:51,958 --> 00:31:53,334 He's a little bit black on the inside. 797 00:31:53,334 --> 00:31:55,586 He's just got a whole bunch of stuff going on in him. 798 00:31:55,586 --> 00:31:58,506 If you think that you know more 799 00:31:58,506 --> 00:32:01,550 about a movie or an actor or- or anything to do 800 00:32:01,550 --> 00:32:04,261 with cinema history, he will just sit there 801 00:32:04,261 --> 00:32:08,057 and smile and listen to you, and then he will bury you 802 00:32:08,057 --> 00:32:09,850 with how much stuff he knows. 803 00:32:09,850 --> 00:32:12,144 Exactly the fact that Quentin didn't go to film school. 804 00:32:12,144 --> 00:32:14,438 I guess his film school was video archives 805 00:32:14,438 --> 00:32:18,859 and the endless movies that he could learn and read and, 806 00:32:18,859 --> 00:32:22,238 uh, watch and, uh, and enjoy and turn other 807 00:32:22,238 --> 00:32:22,905 people onto. 808 00:32:22,905 --> 00:32:24,782 Get himself gone. 809 00:32:24,782 --> 00:32:27,994 The films that he gets off on vary vastly. 810 00:32:27,994 --> 00:32:29,996 Everybody's after Kowalski 811 00:32:29,996 --> 00:32:32,665 He's passionate about Vanishing Point 812 00:32:32,665 --> 00:32:34,166 and that genre. 813 00:32:34,166 --> 00:32:38,713 And then Moeshe. 814 00:32:38,713 --> 00:32:40,673 He just loves the TV show Moesha. 815 00:32:40,673 --> 00:32:41,841 Moeshe. 816 00:32:41,841 --> 00:32:43,843 I would have never guessed that. 817 00:32:43,843 --> 00:32:46,095 And I- I think he's like that about all kinds of things. 818 00:32:46,095 --> 00:32:47,263 I think he's like that with food, 819 00:32:47,263 --> 00:32:50,850 like he loves amazingly high quality French dishes 820 00:32:50,850 --> 00:32:53,060 and he- he will smash a Pink's hotdog, 821 00:32:53,060 --> 00:32:55,604 you know, like I honestly, I think he's kind of like 822 00:32:55,604 --> 00:32:56,564 that with women. 823 00:32:56,564 --> 00:32:58,357 ..break my heart 824 00:32:58,357 --> 00:33:00,609 and make me sad. 825 00:33:00,609 --> 00:33:03,154 Tell me what did I do wrong. 826 00:33:03,154 --> 00:33:04,739 He's sort of like, if he's in love with you 827 00:33:04,739 --> 00:33:05,948 and you're a big, black, 828 00:33:05,948 --> 00:33:07,783 curvy, gorgeous lady, he's all about big, 829 00:33:07,783 --> 00:33:08,659 black curves. 830 00:33:08,659 --> 00:33:10,161 (sings) My baby love... 831 00:33:11,037 --> 00:33:12,246 And if you're a waify, 832 00:33:12,246 --> 00:33:14,540 skinny little white model type and he's in love with you, 833 00:33:14,540 --> 00:33:16,876 he just thinks that's the hottest thing on the planet. 834 00:33:16,876 --> 00:33:18,669 He's just like an appreciator. 835 00:33:20,129 --> 00:33:21,839 He knows everybody. 836 00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:24,967 And when he meets an actor from my era, 837 00:33:24,967 --> 00:33:26,677 the era when he was growin' up, 838 00:33:26,677 --> 00:33:31,223 he amazes them and amazed me by reminding me of this 839 00:33:31,223 --> 00:33:32,808 and that and things and moments 840 00:33:32,808 --> 00:33:35,227 and scenes that he remembers. 841 00:33:35,227 --> 00:33:39,357 He also built a way of sharing his vision with people. 842 00:33:39,357 --> 00:33:40,941 It wasn't storyboards. 843 00:33:40,941 --> 00:33:43,110 It was references. 844 00:33:43,110 --> 00:33:45,905 And so he'd say, 845 00:33:45,905 --> 00:33:48,657 "The warehouse looks like this." 846 00:33:48,657 --> 00:33:51,494 Or, "Look at this film for a reference for 847 00:33:51,494 --> 00:33:53,579 what I'm kind of trying to do here." 848 00:33:53,579 --> 00:33:55,539 When you're in rehearsal with him,... 849 00:33:55,539 --> 00:33:57,666 ...you're discussing those references, 850 00:33:57,666 --> 00:34:00,795 specifically, and he gives you stuff to watch. 851 00:34:00,795 --> 00:34:03,631 It's not something you come to 852 00:34:03,631 --> 00:34:05,466 lightly with him. 853 00:34:05,466 --> 00:34:06,759 It's not a rip-off 854 00:34:06,759 --> 00:34:09,387 that's just crap. 855 00:34:09,387 --> 00:34:11,305 And it's not even an homage. 856 00:34:12,890 --> 00:34:15,893 It's that he's using the tools of cinema to make 857 00:34:15,893 --> 00:34:17,978 more resonant and greater cinema. 858 00:34:18,687 --> 00:34:22,316 Quentin uses filmic vocabulary. 859 00:34:22,316 --> 00:34:24,068 If you look at great art, 860 00:34:24,068 --> 00:34:26,779 that's what musicians do, composers do, 861 00:34:26,779 --> 00:34:28,322 painters do, sculptors do. 862 00:34:28,322 --> 00:34:29,573 'Cause he always, you know, 863 00:34:31,242 --> 00:34:34,703 elevates everything and charges everything. 864 00:34:34,703 --> 00:34:38,207 The detective was the genre that I started with. 865 00:34:38,207 --> 00:34:41,669 Old cars, old clothes, old jokes, fast women, 866 00:34:41,669 --> 00:34:43,045 they all lied to me. 867 00:34:43,045 --> 00:34:45,297 The cynical, but human detective. 868 00:34:45,297 --> 00:34:47,800 Robert Forster as Banyon. 869 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,635 One of the things Quentin does is incur 870 00:34:49,635 --> 00:34:51,178 talent all the time. 871 00:34:51,178 --> 00:34:52,346 I mean a lot of times people will 872 00:34:52,346 --> 00:34:54,473 resurrect old actors and they have them do 873 00:34:54,473 --> 00:34:55,391 what they always did. 874 00:34:55,391 --> 00:35:00,938 What Quentin always does is he pushes them further. 875 00:35:00,938 --> 00:35:02,565 He takes them to a new place. 876 00:35:04,150 --> 00:35:06,193 He gives them a different career. 877 00:35:06,193 --> 00:35:08,404 When my career was at the very bottom, 878 00:35:08,404 --> 00:35:09,780 in walks Quentin. 879 00:35:09,780 --> 00:35:12,825 He said, "I am adapting Rum Punch, 880 00:35:12,825 --> 00:35:15,870 an Elmore Leonard novel, to a movie." 881 00:35:15,870 --> 00:35:17,913 And I said to him, "I don't think they're gonna 882 00:35:17,913 --> 00:35:19,790 let you hire me." 883 00:35:19,790 --> 00:35:22,710 That period in my career, the distributors 884 00:35:22,710 --> 00:35:23,919 didn't want me. 885 00:35:23,919 --> 00:35:25,838 They wanted, you know, somebody with a bigger name. 886 00:35:25,838 --> 00:35:28,549 And he said, and I will never forget him for it, 887 00:35:28,549 --> 00:35:31,677 he said, "I hire anybody I want." 888 00:35:31,677 --> 00:35:34,638 And that is the first moment when I said, 889 00:35:34,638 --> 00:35:37,975 "Wow, Bob, this is a life-changer." 890 00:35:37,975 --> 00:35:40,311 All right, before we start talking about stewardesses, 891 00:35:40,311 --> 00:35:42,104 let's get Beaumont out of the way first. 892 00:35:42,104 --> 00:35:44,273 Uh, you know, I think somebody already did. 893 00:35:44,273 --> 00:35:45,900 I got a call from my agents. 894 00:35:45,900 --> 00:35:47,693 They said that, uh, Vince Gilligan was 895 00:35:47,693 --> 00:35:48,444 gonna call me. 896 00:35:51,197 --> 00:35:52,323 I picked up the phone. 897 00:35:52,323 --> 00:35:55,034 Vince said, "Uh, we've been saving a role 898 00:35:55,034 --> 00:35:56,368 called "The Disappearer". 899 00:35:56,368 --> 00:35:58,996 We've been calling it the Robert Forster role. 900 00:35:58,996 --> 00:36:00,664 And it was, in fact, 901 00:36:00,664 --> 00:36:01,916 a straight shooter. 902 00:36:01,916 --> 00:36:03,125 It's gonna take me 903 00:36:03,125 --> 00:36:05,794 some time to get your new situation fixed. 904 00:36:05,794 --> 00:36:07,421 Until then, you're gonna be staying here. 905 00:36:07,421 --> 00:36:09,757 I've got a place downstairs out of sight. 906 00:36:09,757 --> 00:36:12,092 And, uh, this was a direct result, 907 00:36:12,092 --> 00:36:13,677 of course, of Jackie Brown. 908 00:36:13,677 --> 00:36:18,224 People kept sayin' well, it's not Pulp Fiction. 909 00:36:18,224 --> 00:36:20,100 No, it's fuckin' Jackie Brown. 910 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:22,102 It's a different pace, it's a different story 911 00:36:22,102 --> 00:36:24,188 and it's about different kinds of people. 912 00:36:24,188 --> 00:36:26,982 Yeah, there are some criminals in there, 913 00:36:26,982 --> 00:36:29,693 but it's really an adult movie about people 914 00:36:29,693 --> 00:36:31,654 in a certain place in their life when it's time 915 00:36:31,654 --> 00:36:33,447 for them to make a choice about how they want to live 916 00:36:33,447 --> 00:36:34,281 the rest of their life. 917 00:36:34,281 --> 00:36:35,741 It's a crossroads movie. 918 00:36:35,741 --> 00:36:37,743 If you had the chance, unemployed now, 919 00:36:39,119 --> 00:36:41,830 to walk away with a half million dollars 920 00:36:43,249 --> 00:36:44,166 would you take it? 921 00:36:44,166 --> 00:36:47,544 Despite whatever the minor violence is in it, 922 00:36:47,544 --> 00:36:51,298 it's just a great story about these people trying 923 00:36:51,298 --> 00:36:52,716 to figure out their lives. 924 00:36:56,470 --> 00:36:59,765 When Jackie Brown came out of the prison 925 00:36:59,765 --> 00:37:03,727 and had that long walk toward me 926 00:37:03,727 --> 00:37:06,605 and it is accompanied by music... 927 00:37:11,026 --> 00:37:20,077 (sings) Why do I keep my mind on you all the time? 928 00:37:20,077 --> 00:37:21,078 And I don't even know you... 929 00:37:21,078 --> 00:37:23,956 ...you're watching this guy fall in love 930 00:37:23,956 --> 00:37:25,040 with a woman. 931 00:37:27,251 --> 00:37:31,755 I cannot tell you how emotive that was, 932 00:37:31,755 --> 00:37:34,258 and for a director to do that. 933 00:37:34,258 --> 00:37:36,468 They never do that. 934 00:37:36,468 --> 00:37:38,929 Out of all those films, Jackie Brown is sort of like 935 00:37:38,929 --> 00:37:40,306 the best one. 936 00:37:40,306 --> 00:37:43,225 Yeah, for me, just because of the cinematic beauty 937 00:37:43,225 --> 00:37:46,437 and gentleness of that particular story. 938 00:37:46,437 --> 00:37:48,022 (sing) ...baby. 939 00:37:48,022 --> 00:37:48,897 Hmm. 940 00:37:48,897 --> 00:37:50,149 (sing) Gave you the love you never knew, girl. 941 00:37:50,149 --> 00:37:52,026 Who is this? 942 00:37:52,026 --> 00:37:53,694 The Delphonics. (sing) Didn't I do it baby... 943 00:37:55,946 --> 00:37:56,780 It's nice. 944 00:37:56,780 --> 00:37:57,615 Mm-hmm. 945 00:38:10,377 --> 00:38:11,879 The main influences of Kill Bill 946 00:38:11,879 --> 00:38:18,677 is all the best of Hong Kong cinema. 947 00:38:18,677 --> 00:38:20,054 Quentin is in love 948 00:38:20,054 --> 00:38:21,347 with the culture. 949 00:38:21,347 --> 00:38:23,098 When he does martial arts stuff, 950 00:38:23,098 --> 00:38:26,727 he's recreating the energy and he's participating as 951 00:38:26,727 --> 00:38:28,979 somebody who is so thrilled watching this. 952 00:38:30,439 --> 00:38:32,858 The last script Quentin gave me was Kill Bill... 953 00:38:32,858 --> 00:38:33,442 And it was like almost 954 00:38:33,442 --> 00:38:34,860 the size of a small phone book. 955 00:38:34,860 --> 00:38:35,569 Remember those? 956 00:38:36,779 --> 00:38:38,739 Story by Q and U, 957 00:38:39,948 --> 00:38:41,950 meaning U as in Uma. 958 00:38:41,950 --> 00:38:43,994 We've all just been calling her the bride on 959 00:38:43,994 --> 00:38:45,204 account of the dress. 960 00:38:45,204 --> 00:38:48,082 You can tell she was pregnant. 961 00:38:48,082 --> 00:38:49,875 (spits) 962 00:38:49,875 --> 00:38:52,503 That woman deserves her revenge and- 963 00:38:52,503 --> 00:38:53,879 and we deserve to die. 964 00:38:53,879 --> 00:38:56,340 I could see the faces of the cunts 965 00:38:56,340 --> 00:39:01,136 who did this to me and the dicks responsible. 966 00:39:01,136 --> 00:39:02,763 It read like a novel. 967 00:39:02,763 --> 00:39:03,806 It was funny. 968 00:39:03,806 --> 00:39:05,599 It had all this action in it, 969 00:39:05,599 --> 00:39:07,684 you know, but it read in- in a way that you just 970 00:39:07,684 --> 00:39:08,685 could not put it down. 971 00:39:08,685 --> 00:39:09,436 He would tell me what to read. 972 00:39:09,436 --> 00:39:09,853 I was like, wait. 973 00:39:09,853 --> 00:39:11,855 Okay, I'm gonna read it so now I know 974 00:39:11,855 --> 00:39:13,649 what action I'm gonna do. 975 00:39:13,649 --> 00:39:16,318 And I'd start reading and I'd forget 976 00:39:16,318 --> 00:39:18,404 to read for the stunts and I just would read 977 00:39:18,404 --> 00:39:19,113 the whole thing again. 978 00:39:19,113 --> 00:39:20,406 It happened four times. 979 00:39:20,406 --> 00:39:22,241 That was when I first had my kind of like 980 00:39:22,241 --> 00:39:25,369 professional moment of, "Holy shit. 981 00:39:25,369 --> 00:39:27,162 I'm gonna be a part of something magic." 982 00:39:34,670 --> 00:39:38,048 Quentin has it as Boomer is this part of The Bride 983 00:39:38,048 --> 00:39:40,175 and Zoë is this part of The Bride. 984 00:39:40,175 --> 00:39:42,302 Whatever's in front of the camera is different parts 985 00:39:42,302 --> 00:39:43,637 of the same whole. 986 00:39:43,637 --> 00:39:45,597 We were doing the scene where she runs up 987 00:39:45,597 --> 00:39:46,432 the banister. 988 00:39:46,432 --> 00:39:47,766 And he came to me and he was like, 989 00:39:47,766 --> 00:39:49,810 "So, what are you doing in the shot?" 990 00:39:49,810 --> 00:39:52,438 And I was like, I'm running up the banister. 991 00:39:52,438 --> 00:39:53,480 And he was like, "Yeah, but why?" 992 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,567 And I was like, trick question. 993 00:39:56,567 --> 00:39:57,568 'Cause that's my job." 994 00:39:57,568 --> 00:39:58,318 You know, and he was like, "No, 995 00:39:58,318 --> 00:40:00,779 but why is The Bride running up the banister?" 996 00:40:00,779 --> 00:40:04,032 and I was like, "Oh, to get to O-Ren." 997 00:40:04,032 --> 00:40:06,618 And he was like, "And why is she trying to get to O-Ren?" 998 00:40:07,828 --> 00:40:09,329 It sounds like such actor-speak, 999 00:40:09,329 --> 00:40:11,915 but my running up the banister shifted, 1000 00:40:11,915 --> 00:40:13,500 because now I have an intention. 1001 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:15,252 Now I have a reason outside of 1002 00:40:15,252 --> 00:40:17,045 just technically getting it right. 1003 00:40:17,045 --> 00:40:19,465 That was always super important to Quentin, 1004 00:40:19,465 --> 00:40:21,175 "'cause that bitch fucked up my life 1005 00:40:21,175 --> 00:40:22,134 and I want her to die." 1006 00:40:26,388 --> 00:40:29,558 The fact that he always has women in these strong 1007 00:40:29,558 --> 00:40:32,853 positions isn't something that he necessarily 1008 00:40:32,853 --> 00:40:35,063 highlights or billboards. (overlapping) (whistles) 1009 00:40:35,063 --> 00:40:36,690 To him, of course, it makes sense 1010 00:40:36,690 --> 00:40:40,569 these are women doing this, are fighting or are leaders. 1011 00:40:40,569 --> 00:40:41,528 He does it and, it's for him, 1012 00:40:41,528 --> 00:40:42,446 it's just natural. 1013 00:40:42,446 --> 00:40:45,574 It's such an interesting conversation to have these days, 1014 00:40:46,492 --> 00:40:50,245 girl power and a quality that sort of feels like 1015 00:40:50,245 --> 00:40:52,998 it's all kind of coming to a head. 1016 00:40:52,998 --> 00:40:56,877 The biggest feat is gonna be making it normal 1017 00:40:56,877 --> 00:40:59,755 that we are in lead positions as opposed to 1018 00:40:59,755 --> 00:41:01,089 it being the fight. 1019 00:41:02,132 --> 00:41:05,427 And that's where Quentin is just a priceless ally. 1020 00:41:05,427 --> 00:41:07,596 And I think he needs to sit in an interview and be like, 1021 00:41:07,596 --> 00:41:09,223 "Listen, women should have these roles 1022 00:41:09,223 --> 00:41:09,556 and women..." 1023 00:41:09,556 --> 00:41:12,434 Like he doesn't have to drive it because he's- 1024 00:41:12,434 --> 00:41:14,686 he's just presenting it as such. 1025 00:41:14,686 --> 00:41:17,314 Now if any of you sons of bitches (yells) 1026 00:41:17,314 --> 00:41:21,944 got anything else to say, now's the fuckin' time! 1027 00:41:21,944 --> 00:41:26,323 O-Ren Ishii is a survivor. 1028 00:41:31,203 --> 00:41:35,165 She is a woman who was probably never going to die 1029 00:41:35,165 --> 00:41:37,125 peacefully of old age. 1030 00:41:37,125 --> 00:41:38,794 She swore revenge. 1031 00:41:39,753 --> 00:41:41,797 It only made sense that in the end, 1032 00:41:41,797 --> 00:41:44,091 in her great honor, she was killed 1033 00:41:44,091 --> 00:41:45,759 with the Hattori Hanso sword. 1034 00:41:50,055 --> 00:41:52,432 Uma worked her ass off and was in training 1035 00:41:52,432 --> 00:41:54,935 for a long time before I was even on board. 1036 00:41:54,935 --> 00:41:56,311 She had a crazy schedule. 1037 00:41:56,311 --> 00:41:58,105 She was in just about every shot. 1038 00:41:58,105 --> 00:42:00,732 We were shooting in Beijing. 1039 00:42:00,732 --> 00:42:01,984 She had a newborn. 1040 00:42:03,151 --> 00:42:06,113 She was under intense amounts of physical pressure. 1041 00:42:06,113 --> 00:42:08,156 (grunts) (grunts) 1042 00:42:08,156 --> 00:42:09,408 Cut. Great. 1043 00:42:09,408 --> 00:42:09,950 Excellent. 1044 00:42:09,950 --> 00:42:10,492 Excellent. 1045 00:42:10,492 --> 00:42:13,870 Check (indistinct) (laughs) 1046 00:42:13,870 --> 00:42:16,373 Like, you know, she was in pain a lot of the time. 1047 00:42:16,373 --> 00:42:19,084 She was sort of like, she had blisters and cuts, 1048 00:42:19,084 --> 00:42:19,459 things like that. 1049 00:42:19,459 --> 00:42:21,837 It's just part of the- the deal. 1050 00:42:21,837 --> 00:42:22,963 It feels good to be tough. 1051 00:42:22,963 --> 00:42:24,881 It's strangely sort of liberating. 1052 00:42:24,881 --> 00:42:26,508 Yeah, I'm bleeding. 1053 00:42:26,508 --> 00:42:27,134 Keep rolling. 1054 00:42:28,218 --> 00:42:31,805 The girl fight between Uma and, uh, 1055 00:42:31,805 --> 00:42:34,850 Vivica Fox in Kill Bill is, 1056 00:42:34,850 --> 00:42:37,060 without a doubt, the greatest fight 1057 00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:39,396 any two women ever had in a movie. 1058 00:42:39,396 --> 00:42:40,981 It's crazy good. 1059 00:42:51,366 --> 00:42:53,785 Vivica and Uma just were so great in that scene. 1060 00:42:53,785 --> 00:42:55,120 When I'd sit there and watch, 1061 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,622 I'd forget that I was there to do a job. 1062 00:42:56,622 --> 00:42:57,914 When the daughter comes in the door, 1063 00:42:57,914 --> 00:43:00,125 I'm just like God, it's beautiful. 1064 00:43:00,125 --> 00:43:03,378 The mother versus assassin just like 1065 00:43:03,378 --> 00:43:05,631 (clicks tongue) in one shot. Perfect. 1066 00:43:06,340 --> 00:43:07,466 Mommy, I'm home. 1067 00:43:07,466 --> 00:43:08,967 Hey, baby. 1068 00:43:08,967 --> 00:43:10,510 How was school? 1069 00:43:10,510 --> 00:43:12,012 It softened everything. 1070 00:43:12,012 --> 00:43:12,971 Just amazing. 1071 00:43:12,971 --> 00:43:14,514 And- and- and The Bride sells it, 1072 00:43:14,514 --> 00:43:16,350 too, because she knows, you know. 1073 00:43:17,434 --> 00:43:18,435 It's just genius. 1074 00:43:18,435 --> 00:43:21,605 It's absolute, irrevocable genius, man. 1075 00:43:21,605 --> 00:43:24,733 There's a viciousness and yet their femininity 1076 00:43:24,733 --> 00:43:26,526 never went away for a second. 1077 00:43:27,861 --> 00:43:29,863 It's all about presentation. 1078 00:43:29,863 --> 00:43:31,657 You walk through a shoji screen and then, 1079 00:43:31,657 --> 00:43:34,451 suddenly, there's this winter wonderland. 1080 00:43:36,870 --> 00:43:41,291 He really worked with the designers to create this 1081 00:43:41,291 --> 00:43:44,086 beautiful visual that also turned into a wonderful 1082 00:43:44,086 --> 00:43:46,630 sound backdrop for what we were doing. 1083 00:43:48,465 --> 00:43:49,883 There's the bamboo water fountain. 1084 00:43:49,883 --> 00:43:51,843 It almost acts as a metronome. 1085 00:43:52,636 --> 00:43:56,723 It was absolutely beautiful, 1086 00:43:56,723 --> 00:43:58,975 like when you are watching something from another time. 1087 00:44:00,310 --> 00:44:02,187 It's one of the perfect examples of movie magic 1088 00:44:02,187 --> 00:44:05,524 where the practicality of it was kind of difficult. 1089 00:44:06,316 --> 00:44:09,486 The snow we were using was sort of difficult to breathe. 1090 00:44:09,486 --> 00:44:10,487 So in between takes, 1091 00:44:10,487 --> 00:44:13,031 we had the protective masks on and, you know, 1092 00:44:13,031 --> 00:44:15,158 we were constantly having to cover our footprints. 1093 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,790 And action! 1094 00:44:21,790 --> 00:44:22,791 Women work for him. 1095 00:44:22,791 --> 00:44:25,711 They are fiercely loyal 'cause he actually 1096 00:44:25,711 --> 00:44:27,462 is very protective of them. 1097 00:44:27,462 --> 00:44:28,797 He promotes them. 1098 00:44:28,797 --> 00:44:30,590 He works creatively with them. 1099 00:44:30,590 --> 00:44:32,551 And when you look at the female characters 1100 00:44:32,551 --> 00:44:33,760 in his films, 1101 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,637 they're all quite remarkable. 1102 00:44:36,471 --> 00:44:37,431 Cut! Okay? 1103 00:44:37,431 --> 00:44:39,141 Yeah. Terrific! 1104 00:44:42,894 --> 00:44:43,770 You guys were great. 1105 00:44:43,770 --> 00:44:45,021 That was terrific. 1106 00:44:45,021 --> 00:44:46,440 Part of me still feels like I don't want to talk 1107 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,526 about it because I don't want people to- to know. 1108 00:44:49,526 --> 00:44:53,280 (indistinct) It was the camera angle 1109 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,907 that sold the fact that my head had been cut off 1110 00:44:56,867 --> 00:44:59,703 so I look like I had a little bit of a cone head in real life. 1111 00:44:59,703 --> 00:45:01,037 And then when you see it in the movie, 1112 00:45:01,037 --> 00:45:02,789 it's just like angels are singing. 1113 00:45:07,627 --> 00:45:09,212 There's something beautiful in understanding 1114 00:45:09,212 --> 00:45:11,006 that- that is done in camera. 1115 00:45:13,967 --> 00:45:15,302 That was completely practical 1116 00:45:15,302 --> 00:45:17,345 because you know Quentin doesn't, 1117 00:45:17,345 --> 00:45:19,723 is a fan of avoiding CGI when possible. 1118 00:45:25,979 --> 00:45:27,481 He adores Uma. 1119 00:45:29,149 --> 00:45:32,110 And nobody was more enthusiastic than Quentin. 1120 00:45:32,110 --> 00:45:35,489 I mean, he's still like a kid when he gets worked up. 1121 00:45:35,489 --> 00:45:37,199 Sometimes you do dumb things. 1122 00:45:48,752 --> 00:45:51,213 This is the thing with this business. 1123 00:45:51,213 --> 00:45:56,468 You make the best level of plans and you have great people. 1124 00:45:59,471 --> 00:46:01,556 And then sometimes there's human error. 1125 00:46:12,609 --> 00:46:13,652 Everyone was just having 1126 00:46:13,652 --> 00:46:15,654 fun making a movie. 1127 00:46:16,488 --> 00:46:18,240 And everybody was damn happy to be on a 1128 00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:20,826 set with Quentin Tarantino. 1129 00:46:20,826 --> 00:46:23,245 And everybody was damn happy to be represented 1130 00:46:23,245 --> 00:46:25,455 and distributed by Harvey Weinstein 1131 00:46:25,455 --> 00:46:26,540 and the Weinstein Company. 1132 00:46:34,047 --> 00:46:36,550 What was weird about Harvey is, 1133 00:46:36,550 --> 00:46:38,260 and this was true of his relationship with 1134 00:46:38,260 --> 00:46:40,470 competitors and with people, 1135 00:46:40,470 --> 00:46:43,098 was he- he was a bully and he enjoyed it. 1136 00:46:43,098 --> 00:46:47,269 He had this- this enormous power that, 1137 00:46:48,937 --> 00:46:51,898 I know he was conscious that he had it, 1138 00:46:51,898 --> 00:46:54,734 and I know that he would consciously use it, 1139 00:46:57,070 --> 00:47:00,365 but whether or not he realized he was using it 1140 00:47:00,365 --> 00:47:03,869 in such an obstructive way, 1141 00:47:03,869 --> 00:47:05,495 I don't know about that. 1142 00:47:05,495 --> 00:47:08,081 I'll tell you a funny thing that happened in Cannes. 1143 00:47:08,081 --> 00:47:10,667 I was at this little reception thing with Quentin. 1144 00:47:10,667 --> 00:47:13,128 Here comes Harvey and he comes around the corner 1145 00:47:13,128 --> 00:47:15,881 and he's sweating, like profusely sweating. 1146 00:47:15,881 --> 00:47:18,550 And he's got this really angry face, you know. 1147 00:47:18,550 --> 00:47:20,594 You see a Harvey Weinstein in that mood, 1148 00:47:22,512 --> 00:47:24,764 everybody literally froze. 1149 00:47:24,764 --> 00:47:26,766 And right before he had come in the room, 1150 00:47:26,766 --> 00:47:28,768 Quentin had introduced me to Harvey's wife 1151 00:47:28,768 --> 00:47:29,811 and his little daughter. 1152 00:47:29,811 --> 00:47:33,231 And the little daughter had a doll in her hand 1153 00:47:33,231 --> 00:47:36,693 and she had handed me the doll while we were talking. 1154 00:47:36,693 --> 00:47:40,155 And so I was holding the doll when Harvey came around 1155 00:47:40,155 --> 00:47:42,198 the corner and came into the room. 1156 00:47:42,198 --> 00:47:44,951 And he looked at me and he looked at Quentin 1157 00:47:44,951 --> 00:47:47,204 and he looked at his wife and child 1158 00:47:47,204 --> 00:47:49,247 and he sized up the situation 1159 00:47:49,247 --> 00:47:51,875 and he took the doll out of my hand 1160 00:47:51,875 --> 00:47:54,211 and handed it back to his little kid, to his daughter. 1161 00:47:55,545 --> 00:47:57,130 And Quentin goes, "Harvey, Harvey, 1162 00:47:57,130 --> 00:47:57,714 what are you doing? 1163 00:47:57,714 --> 00:48:00,550 He goes, Michael's gonna do The Hateful Eight. 1164 00:48:00,550 --> 00:48:03,136 Michael's gonna do The Hateful Eight with us." 1165 00:48:03,136 --> 00:48:05,847 And Harvey kind of- kind of stood there 1166 00:48:05,847 --> 00:48:07,474 and his eyes were shifting back and forth 1167 00:48:07,474 --> 00:48:11,394 and he was thinking on his feet. 1168 00:48:11,394 --> 00:48:12,729 Mm. Mm. Mm. (scoffs) And, all of a sudden, he went 1169 00:48:12,729 --> 00:48:14,564 and he took the doll from the little girl 1170 00:48:14,564 --> 00:48:15,732 and gave it back to me. 1171 00:48:15,732 --> 00:48:20,779 And I- I took it and I -- I- I didn't know what to say. 1172 00:48:20,779 --> 00:48:21,863 I mean it was like... 1173 00:48:21,863 --> 00:48:24,616 And he walked away right in that moment. 1174 00:48:24,616 --> 00:48:28,036 He gave me the damn the thing and then he walked away. 1175 00:48:28,036 --> 00:48:30,372 And I remember going, oh, my God. 1176 00:48:30,372 --> 00:48:32,207 And Quentin was laughing hysterically. 1177 00:48:32,207 --> 00:48:34,125 When Quentin finds something funny and he laughs, 1178 00:48:34,125 --> 00:48:35,585 he's got a great laugh. 1179 00:48:35,585 --> 00:48:38,505 And, of course, I gave the doll back to the girl. 1180 00:48:38,505 --> 00:48:40,548 It was very strange and I'll never forget it. 1181 00:48:40,548 --> 00:48:42,384 It was like, wow. 1182 00:48:42,384 --> 00:48:43,843 Where did that come from? 1183 00:48:43,843 --> 00:48:45,345 Holy shit. 1184 00:48:45,345 --> 00:48:46,846 You know a year later, you know, 1185 00:48:46,846 --> 00:48:48,181 the guy's being indicted. 1186 00:49:00,193 --> 00:49:02,404 Quentin loves genre. 1187 00:49:06,199 --> 00:49:09,327 He used to do his QT Fest in Austin. 1188 00:49:09,327 --> 00:49:12,747 There's a big rule that we have during this festival. 1189 00:49:12,747 --> 00:49:15,792 You don't laugh to show that you're superior 1190 00:49:15,792 --> 00:49:19,546 than the movie or how much cooler you are than the movie, 1191 00:49:19,546 --> 00:49:21,381 because I'm telling you nobody here is cooler 1192 00:49:21,381 --> 00:49:22,632 than this movie. 1193 00:49:22,632 --> 00:49:24,259 These movies are fuckin' cool. 1194 00:49:24,259 --> 00:49:25,802 For ten days he would show movies. 1195 00:49:25,802 --> 00:49:27,637 He would have double features every night, 1196 00:49:27,637 --> 00:49:29,055 some nights triple features, 1197 00:49:29,055 --> 00:49:33,643 and showed Asian films and genre films from all over. 1198 00:49:33,643 --> 00:49:35,437 Constantly people would talk movies with him, 1199 00:49:35,437 --> 00:49:36,813 which is what he loves. 1200 00:49:36,813 --> 00:49:38,648 And so I think there was a period of time 1201 00:49:38,648 --> 00:49:41,443 where Austin was a very safe haven for Quentin. 1202 00:49:41,443 --> 00:49:42,986 Quentin and Robert were hanging out a 1203 00:49:42,986 --> 00:49:44,529 lot together at that time. 1204 00:49:44,529 --> 00:49:46,156 I remember Quentin and Robert took me 1205 00:49:46,156 --> 00:49:48,241 and Edgar right out for Mexican food. 1206 00:49:48,241 --> 00:49:49,159 And they told us the 1207 00:49:49,159 --> 00:49:51,578 whole concept of Grindhouse. 1208 00:49:51,578 --> 00:49:53,330 Quentin's part of Grindhouse 1209 00:49:53,330 --> 00:49:54,039 is extraordinary. 1210 00:49:54,039 --> 00:49:55,415 I think it's so smart. 1211 00:49:55,415 --> 00:49:57,500 It's like lots of people have done 1212 00:49:57,500 --> 00:49:59,085 chase films and lots of people have 1213 00:49:59,085 --> 00:50:00,462 done revenge films. 1214 00:50:00,462 --> 00:50:04,215 And it is such a remarkable pro woman, 1215 00:50:04,215 --> 00:50:07,093 feminist, but also cinematic, 1216 00:50:07,093 --> 00:50:10,096 a visionary cinematic, exciting film. 1217 00:50:11,431 --> 00:50:12,265 He rang me and was like, 1218 00:50:12,265 --> 00:50:13,850 Zoë, I've finished the script for Death Proof. 1219 00:50:13,850 --> 00:50:16,770 He had told me that it was gonna be about a stunt guy 1220 00:50:16,770 --> 00:50:18,646 whose car was death proof 1221 00:50:18,646 --> 00:50:20,065 and that he killed women with it. 1222 00:50:21,191 --> 00:50:23,568 Every troupe that you've seen where a woman is 1223 00:50:23,568 --> 00:50:26,988 brutalized is referred to 1224 00:50:26,988 --> 00:50:28,740 and then he flips it on its head. 1225 00:50:28,740 --> 00:50:30,116 Hey! 1226 00:50:30,116 --> 00:50:32,368 (screams) Now I want blood. 1227 00:50:32,368 --> 00:50:33,661 It's about redemption. 1228 00:50:33,661 --> 00:50:34,704 It's about power. 1229 00:50:34,704 --> 00:50:36,081 It's about feminism. 1230 00:50:36,081 --> 00:50:37,540 (grunts) Oh, you want... (grunts) 1231 00:50:37,540 --> 00:50:40,877 He makes roles for women that he wants to see. 1232 00:50:40,877 --> 00:50:43,421 I remember saying to him, "As long as you cast 1233 00:50:43,421 --> 00:50:45,799 someone in the movie that looks like me so I can work on it." 1234 00:50:45,799 --> 00:50:47,217 Nice. 1235 00:50:47,217 --> 00:50:48,676 Nice. Thank you. 1236 00:50:48,676 --> 00:50:49,010 Yep. 1237 00:50:49,010 --> 00:50:50,053 Like, it's on you, buddy. 1238 00:50:50,053 --> 00:50:51,304 Like if I'm terrible at this, 1239 00:50:51,304 --> 00:50:54,557 if I fuck it up, it's your fault. 1240 00:50:54,557 --> 00:50:55,558 (inhales) And he, at one point, was like, 1241 00:50:55,558 --> 00:50:56,393 "Look, this is my job. 1242 00:50:56,393 --> 00:50:57,811 This is what I do. 1243 00:50:57,811 --> 00:51:00,105 I make good casting choices." 1244 00:51:00,105 --> 00:51:02,107 And he said, "I know you and I know what I want 1245 00:51:02,107 --> 00:51:03,525 and I know I can get it." 1246 00:51:03,525 --> 00:51:04,776 So you just need to relax 1247 00:51:04,776 --> 00:51:06,277 and know your lines. 1248 00:51:06,277 --> 00:51:06,736 I remember... 1249 00:51:06,736 --> 00:51:08,279 ..thinking this is like a, 1250 00:51:08,279 --> 00:51:10,907 yeah, it's a great night at the theater, 1251 00:51:10,907 --> 00:51:12,367 you know, in nineteen seventy. 1252 00:51:14,869 --> 00:51:17,163 I'd gone in and interviewed for those 1253 00:51:17,163 --> 00:51:19,958 kinds of movies, you know, so I knew, 1254 00:51:19,958 --> 00:51:20,416 I knew them. 1255 00:51:20,416 --> 00:51:21,209 I knew what he was doing. 1256 00:51:21,209 --> 00:51:22,252 I thought it was pretty great. 1257 00:51:22,252 --> 00:51:24,712 Do I frighten you? 1258 00:51:24,712 --> 00:51:26,214 I was what a stuntman would look like. 1259 00:51:26,214 --> 00:51:27,757 Big scar, that (indistinct). 1260 00:51:27,757 --> 00:51:28,758 He goes, "Yeah, let's do the eyes." 1261 00:51:28,758 --> 00:51:29,968 And you mean big, don't you? and he said, 1262 00:51:29,968 --> 00:51:30,844 "Oh, yeah." 1263 00:51:30,844 --> 00:51:33,263 The old school action hero and the stunt guy are 1264 00:51:33,263 --> 00:51:35,014 really important to him and I think this was an 1265 00:51:35,014 --> 00:51:36,432 exciting way for him to say thank you 1266 00:51:36,432 --> 00:51:38,852 to the stunt people of- of the industry. 1267 00:51:38,852 --> 00:51:39,644 Now. 1268 00:51:39,644 --> 00:51:41,437 That's that Quentin magic is- is getting as 1269 00:51:41,437 --> 00:51:43,022 much of it to be as real as possible. 1270 00:51:43,022 --> 00:51:46,067 (groan) (scream) We're doing ninety miles 1271 00:51:46,067 --> 00:51:48,570 an hour for a lot of that stuff down that road. 1272 00:51:48,570 --> 00:51:51,030 She's strapped to the hood of that car. 1273 00:51:51,030 --> 00:51:52,240 There's nothing you can do. 1274 00:51:52,240 --> 00:51:54,951 If he catches his tire on the edge of the road 1275 00:51:54,951 --> 00:51:57,954 and we go over, that's it for Zoë. 1276 00:51:57,954 --> 00:51:59,497 It's not gonna be a broken arm. 1277 00:51:59,497 --> 00:52:00,248 He came up to me one time and he's like, 1278 00:52:00,248 --> 00:52:01,207 "Zoë, come and look at this." 1279 00:52:01,207 --> 00:52:02,792 And I sat there and I was all excited to see it and 1280 00:52:02,792 --> 00:52:04,586 I was watching it and I was like, 1281 00:52:04,586 --> 00:52:05,128 "Oh, my God. 1282 00:52:05,128 --> 00:52:06,004 It looks amazing." 1283 00:52:06,004 --> 00:52:07,213 I was so over the moon. 1284 00:52:07,213 --> 00:52:08,298 He was like, "What's wrong with it?" 1285 00:52:08,298 --> 00:52:08,798 And I was like, "What? 1286 00:52:08,798 --> 00:52:09,465 What are you talking about? 1287 00:52:09,465 --> 00:52:10,425 There's nothing wrong with that. 1288 00:52:10,425 --> 00:52:12,051 That's fuckin' gold." 1289 00:52:12,051 --> 00:52:13,219 He was like, there's something wrong with it. 1290 00:52:13,219 --> 00:52:13,636 What is it? 1291 00:52:13,636 --> 00:52:16,139 And I was like, "I don't know, Quentin. 1292 00:52:16,139 --> 00:52:17,765 I think you're being a bit fussy." 1293 00:52:17,765 --> 00:52:19,934 You know, and he was like, "What don't we see in the 1294 00:52:19,934 --> 00:52:21,519 whole four minutes?" 1295 00:52:21,519 --> 00:52:22,395 And I was like, "What? 1296 00:52:22,395 --> 00:52:24,063 (gasps) My face." 1297 00:52:24,063 --> 00:52:27,025 And we never once saw my face because my job for 1298 00:52:27,025 --> 00:52:29,402 so long had been to know exactly 1299 00:52:29,402 --> 00:52:30,987 where the camera was so I'd avoid it. 1300 00:52:30,987 --> 00:52:31,863 I'd have an arm up. 1301 00:52:31,863 --> 00:52:34,407 I'd use my hair or my body or whatever, 1302 00:52:34,407 --> 00:52:35,491 'cause that was my job. 1303 00:52:35,491 --> 00:52:38,077 If you saw my face, the take was ruined. 1304 00:52:38,077 --> 00:52:38,494 And he was like, 1305 00:52:38,494 --> 00:52:39,621 "I love that you're that good at it, 1306 00:52:39,621 --> 00:52:41,331 but I need you to reverse it because the 1307 00:52:41,331 --> 00:52:44,667 whole point of this is that we can see it's you." 1308 00:52:46,211 --> 00:52:48,880 He loves to help actors get to a place 1309 00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,216 where they can completely bring it. 1310 00:52:54,594 --> 00:52:56,512 So how's Quentin different from other directors? 1311 00:52:56,512 --> 00:53:00,725 (laughs) I never, never fear 1312 00:53:00,725 --> 00:53:02,727 that my joy is gonna be cut off. 1313 00:53:02,727 --> 00:53:03,353 Wahoo! 1314 00:53:03,353 --> 00:53:08,233 (laughs) Hey, ladies, that was fun. 1315 00:53:08,233 --> 00:53:13,071 (laughs) Acting in Death Proof was a blast. 1316 00:53:13,071 --> 00:53:14,781 We had so much fun. I mean, it's a bar scene. 1317 00:53:14,781 --> 00:53:16,449 Quentin is a bartender. 1318 00:53:16,449 --> 00:53:18,034 And there was one scene where Quentin had 1319 00:53:18,034 --> 00:53:19,369 to do these Irish car bombs. 1320 00:53:19,369 --> 00:53:21,246 And Quentin's like, "It's got to be real or the foam 1321 00:53:21,246 --> 00:53:22,288 won't be correct." 1322 00:53:22,288 --> 00:53:24,666 And Quentin's like "I can't be there to see 1323 00:53:24,666 --> 00:53:26,834 how the take looks, so this is a long take. 1324 00:53:26,834 --> 00:53:27,961 You've- you've got to do this right, 1325 00:53:27,961 --> 00:53:30,588 but I'm drinking real Guinness and real Jager. 1326 00:53:30,588 --> 00:53:31,589 You guys can't fuck it up." 1327 00:53:31,589 --> 00:53:31,839 Right. 1328 00:53:31,839 --> 00:53:32,423 Okay, okay. 1329 00:53:32,423 --> 00:53:33,007 Everyone's ready. 1330 00:53:33,007 --> 00:53:33,716 Last shot of the night. 1331 00:53:33,716 --> 00:53:34,968 It's like six-thirty in the morning. Aah! 1332 00:53:34,968 --> 00:53:37,845 So we're like, boom, boom, boom, boom. 1333 00:53:37,845 --> 00:53:39,180 And Quentin's like, how'd it turn out, Jimmy. 1334 00:53:39,180 --> 00:53:41,975 And he's like, actually that was- that was great. 1335 00:53:41,975 --> 00:53:42,892 Quentin said, "Cool, cool. 1336 00:53:42,892 --> 00:53:43,935 We should get one for safety, 1337 00:53:43,935 --> 00:53:44,811 right?" 1338 00:53:44,811 --> 00:53:45,520 Boom, boom. 1339 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:47,230 He drinks another shot, drinks another shot. 1340 00:53:47,230 --> 00:53:49,232 And I don't know how, but we started singing this 1341 00:53:49,232 --> 00:53:51,568 song from Blazing Saddles, where I was like, 1342 00:53:51,568 --> 00:53:53,236 (sings) din-din-din-in, din-din-din. 1343 00:53:53,236 --> 00:53:53,820 (sings) Throw out your hands, 1344 00:53:53,820 --> 00:53:54,571 Stick out your tush... (sings) Throw out your hands, 1345 00:53:54,571 --> 00:53:56,990 (speaks) And I just started doing it to Quentin. 1346 00:53:56,990 --> 00:53:58,449 And he just started laughing. 1347 00:53:58,449 --> 00:53:59,867 And he's like, "Ah, that was so fun. 1348 00:53:59,867 --> 00:54:00,952 He's like, "Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1349 00:54:00,952 --> 00:54:02,287 Let's- let's just do another one." 1350 00:54:02,287 --> 00:54:04,038 And we're like, yeah, but now it's like 1351 00:54:04,038 --> 00:54:05,290 seven fifteen in the morning. 1352 00:54:05,290 --> 00:54:06,708 And so Quentin's like, 1353 00:54:06,708 --> 00:54:08,167 "Action!" And he goes, 1354 00:54:08,167 --> 00:54:11,879 "pshew" and slams the glass down and shatters it 1355 00:54:11,879 --> 00:54:15,591 and cuts his hand and falls off the table laughing. 1356 00:54:15,591 --> 00:54:19,137 And he's like, "Ah-ha-ha-ha! 1357 00:54:19,137 --> 00:54:21,097 That was so funny. 1358 00:54:21,097 --> 00:54:22,890 Oh, my God!" 1359 00:54:22,890 --> 00:54:25,768 I think we did about twelve takes. 1360 00:54:25,768 --> 00:54:28,521 Finally at like, maybe it's eight-forty-five 1361 00:54:28,521 --> 00:54:31,107 in the morning, I was leaving and Quentin, like, 1362 00:54:31,107 --> 00:54:31,899 grabbed my arm. He's like, 1363 00:54:31,899 --> 00:54:32,942 "You're stayin' and you're having a drink with us, right?" 1364 00:54:32,942 --> 00:54:33,860 I said, "Yeah, yeah. 1365 00:54:33,860 --> 00:54:34,444 Let me be right back." 1366 00:54:34,444 --> 00:54:35,403 And I like ran away 1367 00:54:35,403 --> 00:54:37,780 back to the hotel to sleep. I don't know. 1368 00:54:37,780 --> 00:54:39,532 All I heard was someone may have been puking 1369 00:54:39,532 --> 00:54:40,616 in a dumpster at eleven o'clock the next morning. 1370 00:54:42,869 --> 00:54:45,580 when I saw Death Proof, 1371 00:54:45,580 --> 00:54:47,874 in that scene 1372 00:54:47,874 --> 00:54:50,126 where the girls are sitting in the car 1373 00:54:50,126 --> 00:54:53,296 driving and talking, nothing happens. 1374 00:54:53,296 --> 00:54:58,676 They don't say anything that's really relevant to anything. 1375 00:54:58,676 --> 00:55:02,430 It goes on and it goes on and I think it goes on for 1376 00:55:02,430 --> 00:55:03,765 forty-five minutes, 1377 00:55:03,765 --> 00:55:07,560 and they are still driving and talking. 1378 00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:15,109 And I was so smitten by that moment that it really 1379 00:55:15,109 --> 00:55:20,531 clicked that- that yeah, despite all the 1380 00:55:20,531 --> 00:55:24,327 extraordinary entertainment that these 1381 00:55:24,327 --> 00:55:32,377 movies deliver, there is an allure and a suction 1382 00:55:32,377 --> 00:55:34,128 that pulls you in. 1383 00:55:35,797 --> 00:55:40,635 There is always that, this- this strength in it. 1384 00:55:40,635 --> 00:55:43,179 (sings) Where the hell are my keys? 1385 00:55:43,179 --> 00:55:44,097 Here they are. 1386 00:56:09,372 --> 00:56:12,291 I think Quentin's influence on film is twofold. 1387 00:56:12,291 --> 00:56:14,168 One is that he's empowered 1388 00:56:14,168 --> 00:56:15,962 a lot of half-ass filmmakers to make some 1389 00:56:15,962 --> 00:56:18,089 very bad films because they don't know 1390 00:56:18,089 --> 00:56:19,590 how to watch his films. 1391 00:56:19,590 --> 00:56:21,050 They miss the poetry 1392 00:56:21,050 --> 00:56:24,512 and the elegance and the eloquence of his filmmaking. 1393 00:56:24,512 --> 00:56:26,431 And so they go and they- they had a lot of, 1394 00:56:26,431 --> 00:56:28,599 you know, bizarre violence and- and people 1395 00:56:28,599 --> 00:56:32,395 mistreating people and they miss his passionate humanism. 1396 00:56:32,395 --> 00:56:35,231 Inglourious Basterds, this is a film that teaches 1397 00:56:35,231 --> 00:56:38,067 filmmakers how to make movies because the opening 1398 00:56:38,067 --> 00:56:42,864 scene is literally Quentin saying to everybody, 1399 00:56:42,864 --> 00:56:44,449 "Oh, you think you know who I am, 1400 00:56:44,449 --> 00:56:45,950 and you think you know what I can do, 1401 00:56:45,950 --> 00:56:48,035 and you think you've seen a war movie before. 1402 00:56:48,035 --> 00:56:49,454 Well, I'm gonna mess with you 1403 00:56:49,454 --> 00:56:51,831 in a way you haven't even begun to think." 1404 00:56:54,208 --> 00:56:55,293 Papa! 1405 00:56:55,293 --> 00:56:56,544 That I'm in control. 1406 00:56:56,544 --> 00:56:58,421 Then you were in the palm of my hands 1407 00:56:58,421 --> 00:57:00,756 and you're on my trip. 1408 00:57:00,756 --> 00:57:02,633 The German general comes in. 1409 00:57:02,633 --> 00:57:05,261 You can't quite figure out why he's being so friendly. 1410 00:57:08,139 --> 00:57:10,349 And you don't know why are they so scared? 1411 00:57:13,686 --> 00:57:14,437 And then at a certain point, 1412 00:57:14,437 --> 00:57:16,522 Quentin takes you under the house. 1413 00:57:18,524 --> 00:57:20,818 And it's really a horrific moment. 1414 00:57:25,573 --> 00:57:27,492 You know, it's not Robert Wise with The Haunting 1415 00:57:27,492 --> 00:57:29,285 where he's freaking you out with camera angles. 1416 00:57:29,285 --> 00:57:31,787 It's not Toby Hooper's, uh, 1417 00:57:31,787 --> 00:57:32,914 Texas Chainsaw where 1418 00:57:32,914 --> 00:57:34,624 he's like shoving your face in it. 1419 00:57:34,624 --> 00:57:36,292 It's what's not happening. 1420 00:57:36,292 --> 00:57:39,086 A German soldier conducts a search of a house 1421 00:57:39,086 --> 00:57:41,631 suspected of hiding Jews. 1422 00:57:41,631 --> 00:57:43,132 Where does the hawk look? 1423 00:57:43,132 --> 00:57:44,300 He looks in the barn. 1424 00:57:44,300 --> 00:57:45,343 He looks in the attic. 1425 00:57:45,343 --> 00:57:46,511 He looks in the cellar. 1426 00:57:46,511 --> 00:57:50,014 He looks everywhere he would hide. 1427 00:57:50,014 --> 00:57:51,933 But there's so many places that wouldn't even have 1428 00:57:51,933 --> 00:57:54,143 occurred to a hawk to hide. 1429 00:57:54,143 --> 00:57:56,521 No, you're not turning a corner and suddenly having 1430 00:57:56,521 --> 00:57:57,522 a cat screech. 1431 00:57:57,522 --> 00:57:58,731 And you go, "Oh!" 1432 00:57:58,731 --> 00:57:59,732 It's not cutting. 1433 00:57:59,732 --> 00:58:02,860 It's all intellectual and it's all unbearable. 1434 00:58:04,070 --> 00:58:06,155 Point out to me the areas where they're hiding. 1435 00:58:25,758 --> 00:58:28,302 The dialogue is, 1436 00:58:28,302 --> 00:58:29,720 so to say, 1437 00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:31,889 the tiny tip of the iceberg. 1438 00:58:33,266 --> 00:58:34,725 It's a clue. 1439 00:58:39,355 --> 00:58:42,275 I thank you for your time. 1440 00:58:44,735 --> 00:58:46,779 We shan't be bothering your family any longer. 1441 00:58:47,738 --> 00:58:50,658 So Quentin, in his dialogue, 1442 00:58:50,658 --> 00:58:54,453 doesn't tell you how to say it, 1443 00:58:54,453 --> 00:58:58,124 but he gives you like a whole abundance 1444 00:58:58,124 --> 00:59:00,626 of elements of what to say. 1445 00:59:00,626 --> 00:59:01,752 ...adieu. 1446 00:59:05,381 --> 00:59:10,136 You derive fun from trying to figure that out. 1447 00:59:10,136 --> 00:59:12,263 That's it. 1448 00:59:12,263 --> 00:59:14,640 (chuckles) And Quentin starts there and then he 1449 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,601 goes and messes in doing almost every other way he 1450 00:59:16,601 --> 00:59:18,936 can in terms of what a war film does. 1451 00:59:18,936 --> 00:59:22,690 (pants) (speaks French) 1452 00:59:22,690 --> 00:59:23,232 I remember the 1453 00:59:23,232 --> 00:59:24,817 first rehearsal from Inglourious Basterds. 1454 00:59:24,817 --> 00:59:26,819 We all sat around and everybody had our scripts 1455 00:59:26,819 --> 00:59:27,361 and we had our lines. 1456 00:59:27,361 --> 00:59:28,946 Quentin's like close your scripts. 1457 00:59:28,946 --> 00:59:30,573 And he's like, who are you? 1458 00:59:30,573 --> 00:59:31,991 And I was like, "I'm Donny Donowitz." 1459 00:59:31,991 --> 00:59:34,577 And you had to go on and on and on 1460 00:59:34,577 --> 00:59:35,870 about your backstory. 1461 00:59:35,870 --> 00:59:36,621 And he's like, "Well, how did you feel 1462 00:59:36,621 --> 00:59:38,080 when he joined the Basterds? 1463 00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:38,581 What did you think about 1464 00:59:38,581 --> 00:59:40,249 Stiglitz coming into the Basterds?" 1465 00:59:40,249 --> 00:59:42,001 Everybody had to have their answers ready. 1466 00:59:42,001 --> 00:59:44,253 And there was one person who didn't. 1467 00:59:44,253 --> 00:59:45,713 You! 1468 00:59:45,713 --> 00:59:46,380 And... 1469 00:59:46,380 --> 00:59:49,258 ...you weren't there the next day. 1470 00:59:49,258 --> 00:59:51,510 And that guy was an extra. 1471 00:59:51,510 --> 00:59:54,472 So I was really, really training for it. 1472 00:59:54,472 --> 00:59:56,849 And I knew the bat scene, that was the scene. 1473 00:59:56,849 --> 00:59:59,143 Like, this-It was like if I do nothing else in 1474 00:59:59,143 --> 01:00:01,687 my life, it is this scene. 1475 01:00:01,687 --> 01:00:03,439 You hear that? 1476 01:00:05,066 --> 01:00:05,858 Yes. 1477 01:00:09,153 --> 01:00:11,906 It's Sergeant Donny Donowitz. 1478 01:00:11,906 --> 01:00:14,492 You might know him better by his nickname, 1479 01:00:14,492 --> 01:00:16,911 The Bear Jew. 1480 01:00:16,911 --> 01:00:18,913 Quentin just gave me the most heroic... 1481 01:00:18,913 --> 01:00:22,416 The one they call "The Bear Jew"... 1482 01:00:22,416 --> 01:00:23,959 ...is a Golem! 1483 01:00:23,959 --> 01:00:25,294 He's like you have Brad Pitt 1484 01:00:25,294 --> 01:00:26,545 and Hitler building you up. 1485 01:00:26,545 --> 01:00:28,381 He's like this is gonna be your moment. 1486 01:00:28,381 --> 01:00:29,965 And, you know, I was gonna come out of this tunnel. 1487 01:00:29,965 --> 01:00:31,425 Quentin was like, "I got the best tunnel. 1488 01:00:31,425 --> 01:00:32,468 You're gonna be tapping with a bat and 1489 01:00:32,468 --> 01:00:33,594 you're gonna come out." 1490 01:00:33,594 --> 01:00:35,846 Well, I got some weights and we set up a punching bag, 1491 01:00:35,846 --> 01:00:37,932 so that Brad was doing the whole scene 1492 01:00:37,932 --> 01:00:40,309 and I was in the back and I was like lifting weights 1493 01:00:40,309 --> 01:00:42,103 and doing pull-ups, like, I wanted to be ready like- 1494 01:00:42,103 --> 01:00:42,853 like an animal. 1495 01:00:42,853 --> 01:00:44,271 And Quentin was like, all right, 1496 01:00:44,271 --> 01:00:45,064 we're gettin' to you after lunch. 1497 01:00:45,064 --> 01:00:45,147 We're gettin' to you. 1498 01:00:45,147 --> 01:00:46,107 And then by the end, he's like, 1499 01:00:46,107 --> 01:00:47,108 we're gonna do you next, so be ready, ready. 1500 01:00:47,108 --> 01:00:49,068 And he was like, well, that's a wrap. 1501 01:00:49,068 --> 01:00:49,694 And I was like (grunt). 1502 01:00:49,694 --> 01:00:51,070 And I would, like, sit there at the end of day 1503 01:00:51,070 --> 01:00:54,281 and like (groan) like getting all made up and ready, 1504 01:00:54,281 --> 01:00:55,658 pumped up, ready to go, 1505 01:00:55,658 --> 01:00:57,118 and then it would be like the night at the gym and 1506 01:00:57,118 --> 01:00:59,120 in the morning the gym, and then ready for it. 1507 01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:02,123 And Quentin did that to me for about four or five days. 1508 01:01:02,123 --> 01:01:04,959 He finally, and he just like had me like a caged animal. 1509 01:01:04,959 --> 01:01:06,544 He was, of course, doing it on purpose. 1510 01:01:12,925 --> 01:01:14,468 And when I came out with that bat, 1511 01:01:14,468 --> 01:01:16,554 I was so, so ready. 1512 01:01:16,554 --> 01:01:19,014 And then I just started wailing on that dummy. 1513 01:01:19,014 --> 01:01:21,350 (grunts) I'm going completely crazy. 1514 01:01:21,350 --> 01:01:22,852 I mean I think I lost my voice 1515 01:01:22,852 --> 01:01:24,437 for a couple days after that. 1516 01:01:27,231 --> 01:01:29,692 I know that Quentin really wanted, 1517 01:01:29,692 --> 01:01:34,155 um, authentic, um, actors to be really German, 1518 01:01:34,155 --> 01:01:35,406 to be really French. 1519 01:01:35,406 --> 01:01:37,533 Um, he spent months and months and months in 1520 01:01:37,533 --> 01:01:39,285 Germany trying to find the right people, 1521 01:01:39,285 --> 01:01:42,163 especially for Christoph Waltz's character. 1522 01:01:47,376 --> 01:01:49,754 And I know that he had said himself, 1523 01:01:49,754 --> 01:01:51,589 that if he wouldn't have found Christoph, 1524 01:01:51,589 --> 01:01:53,674 he wouldn't have been able to make this film. 1525 01:02:03,392 --> 01:02:06,020 Quentin was very secretive about, 1526 01:02:06,020 --> 01:02:07,730 uh, Christoph's character. 1527 01:02:07,730 --> 01:02:09,982 Uh, even at the read-throughs we didn't 1528 01:02:09,982 --> 01:02:13,027 get to really see his performance. 1529 01:02:18,032 --> 01:02:19,575 In the theatre when Christoph comes in 1530 01:02:19,575 --> 01:02:22,453 and confronts Bridget, 1531 01:02:22,453 --> 01:02:24,622 we never rehearsed that scene, 1532 01:02:24,622 --> 01:02:27,291 so it was a complete surprise to me when 1533 01:02:27,291 --> 01:02:30,461 he started going crazy on the laugh and- and the way he 1534 01:02:30,461 --> 01:02:31,378 did that scene. 1535 01:02:35,883 --> 01:02:49,021 (laughs) And I think it kind of shows in my face. 1536 01:02:49,021 --> 01:02:50,856 Christoph just found this character. 1537 01:02:50,856 --> 01:02:54,568 He had a really specific idea of how he wanted to 1538 01:02:54,568 --> 01:02:58,280 play it and together with Quentin they just had this 1539 01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:01,951 great bond and it got bigger and bigger and bigger. 1540 01:03:01,951 --> 01:03:05,830 There is definitely an exuberance about the 1541 01:03:05,830 --> 01:03:08,082 medium that he spreads. 1542 01:03:08,082 --> 01:03:12,461 And there is no, no inoculation against this bug. 1543 01:03:12,461 --> 01:03:15,172 You get infected whether you want to or not. 1544 01:03:15,172 --> 01:03:18,592 (laughs) Well, I don't know whether you want to 1545 01:03:18,592 --> 01:03:20,845 or not, because that's part of the, 1546 01:03:20,845 --> 01:03:25,224 part of the infection that you do want to get infected. 1547 01:03:25,224 --> 01:03:27,059 It's like going to a whore house to 1548 01:03:27,059 --> 01:03:29,645 get infected with the syphilis. 1549 01:03:29,645 --> 01:03:31,856 I've never been killed on film, 1550 01:03:31,856 --> 01:03:34,149 so as the day approached, I was getting more and more 1551 01:03:34,149 --> 01:03:35,818 nervous about it. 1552 01:03:35,818 --> 01:03:38,612 I'm in my trailer and Quentin comes in and he goes, 1553 01:03:38,612 --> 01:03:40,865 "Well, I don't really trust Christoph to 1554 01:03:40,865 --> 01:03:43,284 kill you, so I'm gonna do it myself." 1555 01:03:43,284 --> 01:03:45,286 And he was like, "Well, look at this. 1556 01:03:45,286 --> 01:03:49,665 They cut off SS sleeves that fit me and I'm gonna 1557 01:03:49,665 --> 01:03:52,459 put them on and then I'm just gonna be on top of 1558 01:03:52,459 --> 01:03:53,586 you and I'm gonna be strangling you, 1559 01:03:53,586 --> 01:03:55,838 and it's gonna be great." 1560 01:03:55,838 --> 01:03:56,797 I was like, " Oh, oh. 1561 01:03:56,797 --> 01:03:57,631 Yeah, that's great. 1562 01:03:57,631 --> 01:03:58,299 Sure. 1563 01:03:58,299 --> 01:03:59,133 Fair enough. 1564 01:03:59,133 --> 01:03:59,550 Why not?" 1565 01:03:59,550 --> 01:04:01,844 And- and now I'm really panicking. 1566 01:04:01,844 --> 01:04:04,889 And so we know we do the stunt and like I'm finally 1567 01:04:04,889 --> 01:04:08,142 on the ground and I just have this to the end of 1568 01:04:08,142 --> 01:04:11,687 my life vision of Quentin, who by all means is three 1569 01:04:11,687 --> 01:04:15,441 times Christoph's size and his hands are three times 1570 01:04:15,441 --> 01:04:17,860 Christoph's hands on top of me, 1571 01:04:17,860 --> 01:04:20,362 you know, with put-on sleeves that are three 1572 01:04:20,362 --> 01:04:23,032 sizes too small for him strangling me. 1573 01:04:23,032 --> 01:04:26,202 And I was just like, well, at least if I die, 1574 01:04:26,202 --> 01:04:28,621 it's Quentin Tarantino who killed me today. 1575 01:04:28,621 --> 01:04:29,622 Ooh! 1576 01:04:29,622 --> 01:04:36,378 (gasps) I guess he really gets in there. 1577 01:04:36,378 --> 01:04:37,838 Quentin is very hands-on. 1578 01:04:37,838 --> 01:04:39,298 He sits next to camera. 1579 01:04:39,298 --> 01:04:41,634 Usually directors sit at video village, 1580 01:04:41,634 --> 01:04:43,135 sometimes in a different room. 1581 01:04:43,135 --> 01:04:45,304 You feel like he's involved, 1582 01:04:45,304 --> 01:04:47,848 he's there, he's kind of holding your hand a little bit. 1583 01:04:47,848 --> 01:04:51,852 At the end of the day, you feel like he sees everything. 1584 01:04:51,852 --> 01:04:54,563 He laughs when there's like a joke in the scene. 1585 01:04:54,563 --> 01:04:56,690 He's always like-- Sometimes you have to cut 1586 01:04:56,690 --> 01:04:58,150 because we can hear Quentin laughing. 1587 01:04:58,150 --> 01:04:59,568 It's- It's pretty great. 1588 01:05:01,737 --> 01:05:03,906 (laughs) Hi, Sally. 1589 01:05:03,906 --> 01:05:05,532 (laughs) Any time you get a take and he likes it, 1590 01:05:05,532 --> 01:05:08,035 he's like, "All right, another one to shout to Sally. 1591 01:05:08,035 --> 01:05:12,498 (laughs) Hi, Sally. (chuckles) 1592 01:05:12,498 --> 01:05:15,167 He called me right after he met Sally Menke 1593 01:05:15,167 --> 01:05:17,419 and he said, I've met this gal. 1594 01:05:17,419 --> 01:05:20,673 I think we're gonna work on all our movies together. 1595 01:05:20,673 --> 01:05:23,509 Look into the camera and tell my lonely editor 1596 01:05:23,509 --> 01:05:25,260 stuck in Los Angeles 1597 01:05:25,260 --> 01:05:27,388 that's in her room all by herself, hello. 1598 01:05:27,388 --> 01:05:28,722 Her name is Sally. 1599 01:05:28,722 --> 01:05:30,891 Hello, Sally. 1600 01:05:30,891 --> 01:05:32,142 And welcome to happy first day. 1601 01:05:32,142 --> 01:05:33,477 And happy first day! 1602 01:05:33,477 --> 01:05:36,313 Now all together, go. 1603 01:05:36,313 --> 01:05:40,025 Hello, Sally and happy first day! 1604 01:05:40,025 --> 01:05:41,610 Sally Menke, unfortunately, 1605 01:05:41,610 --> 01:05:43,946 is not with us anymore. 1606 01:05:43,946 --> 01:05:47,157 But she was Quentin's major contributing editor 1607 01:05:47,157 --> 01:05:49,994 for all of his movies for a while there. 1608 01:05:49,994 --> 01:05:57,251 She is my only true genuine collaborator 1609 01:05:57,251 --> 01:06:01,463 from beginning to end and that's the way it is. 1610 01:06:01,463 --> 01:06:02,923 They just knew each other so well, 1611 01:06:02,923 --> 01:06:05,300 it felt like kind of their unspoken language. 1612 01:06:05,300 --> 01:06:08,012 She was one of those women that could be like, 1613 01:06:08,012 --> 01:06:09,346 "You're being self-indulgent." 1614 01:06:09,346 --> 01:06:12,099 And he'd be like, "Fine!" 1615 01:06:12,099 --> 01:06:16,937 I think he could hear Sally's voice when he's shooting. 1616 01:06:16,937 --> 01:06:19,231 And so tonight I want to thank my co-writer, 1617 01:06:19,231 --> 01:06:22,192 Sally Menke. 1618 01:06:22,192 --> 01:06:25,487 She was his cheerleader 1619 01:06:25,487 --> 01:06:27,781 and his editor all rolled into one. 1620 01:06:27,781 --> 01:06:28,907 Hi, Sally. 1621 01:06:30,826 --> 01:06:31,660 Hi, Sally. 1622 01:06:32,119 --> 01:06:33,412 Hi, Sally. 1623 01:06:33,412 --> 01:06:34,121 Cut! 1624 01:06:34,121 --> 01:06:36,206 The Basterds will be waiting from you. 1625 01:06:36,206 --> 01:06:37,833 (to self/Sally) Fucking, fucky, fuck. 1626 01:06:37,833 --> 01:06:38,834 So, close. 1627 01:06:38,834 --> 01:06:40,586 Hello, Sally. So close. 1628 01:06:57,061 --> 01:07:01,148 The resonance of his cinema is to push you 1629 01:07:01,148 --> 01:07:03,859 with every tool at his disposal and he's a master 1630 01:07:03,859 --> 01:07:05,486 at most of those tools. 1631 01:07:05,486 --> 01:07:08,238 I remember that ending watching it and my parents, 1632 01:07:08,238 --> 01:07:09,448 my parents were crying. 1633 01:07:09,448 --> 01:07:10,699 It was just this incredible, 1634 01:07:10,699 --> 01:07:12,159 incredible moment. 1635 01:07:12,159 --> 01:07:18,415 I get to be the Jew that shot Hitler. 1636 01:07:18,415 --> 01:07:19,208 It's the greatest. 1637 01:07:19,208 --> 01:07:20,793 Everywhere I go, people recognize me for 1638 01:07:20,793 --> 01:07:22,628 The Bear Jew, every country. 1639 01:07:22,628 --> 01:07:23,420 It's incredible. 1640 01:07:23,420 --> 01:07:28,592 I think the people who think that 1641 01:07:28,592 --> 01:07:31,178 Inglourious Basterds goes off the rails when Hitler 1642 01:07:31,178 --> 01:07:35,682 dies misses that we all are watching the movie and 1643 01:07:35,682 --> 01:07:37,434 we all know we're watching a movie. 1644 01:07:37,434 --> 01:07:38,644 He didn't change history, 1645 01:07:38,644 --> 01:07:43,732 nor does he ever claim to do that. 1646 01:07:43,732 --> 01:07:48,487 But he's doing exactly the- the- the 1647 01:07:48,487 --> 01:07:57,955 quintessential task of what storytelling is all about. 1648 01:07:57,955 --> 01:07:59,706 What if? 1649 01:07:59,706 --> 01:08:03,293 I've never had the desire to be part of repeating my 1650 01:08:03,293 --> 01:08:05,546 country's history over and over and over, 1651 01:08:05,546 --> 01:08:07,798 so the set seemed really refreshing. 1652 01:08:07,798 --> 01:08:10,717 (laughs) And, uh, only Quentin Tarantino gets 1653 01:08:10,717 --> 01:08:12,761 away with stuff like that. 1654 01:08:12,761 --> 01:08:14,513 I mean, what a ballsy movie to make. 1655 01:08:14,513 --> 01:08:17,349 That guy makes a movie, that's a movie called 1656 01:08:17,349 --> 01:08:18,934 Inglourious Basterds where the bastards aren't really 1657 01:08:18,934 --> 01:08:21,019 in it that much, a war movie where there's almost 1658 01:08:21,019 --> 01:08:24,356 no war, and it's two-thirds in a foreign language. 1659 01:08:24,356 --> 01:08:26,567 It's just like, how do you do that? 1660 01:08:26,567 --> 01:08:27,943 How do you have the confidence and the balls 1661 01:08:27,943 --> 01:08:30,946 to do that coming off of what was the biggest 1662 01:08:30,946 --> 01:08:32,656 commercial failure of your career? 1663 01:08:32,656 --> 01:08:33,866 I'm alive. 1664 01:08:33,866 --> 01:08:36,702 (speaks German) He's like, I'm gonna do something 1665 01:08:36,702 --> 01:08:37,953 bold and brave and different. 1666 01:08:37,953 --> 01:08:39,413 Then he does it again with Django. 1667 01:08:39,413 --> 01:08:40,956 And everyone's still doubting him. 1668 01:08:40,956 --> 01:08:42,708 How can you do a slavery movie at Christmas? 1669 01:08:42,708 --> 01:08:43,750 And he said, watch this. 1670 01:08:43,750 --> 01:08:45,127 It's his biggest movie ever. 1671 01:08:58,807 --> 01:08:59,433 Everyone is standing 1672 01:08:59,433 --> 01:09:01,268 in the Quentin Tarantino line to work. 1673 01:09:01,268 --> 01:09:02,436 I don't care who they are. 1674 01:09:02,436 --> 01:09:04,897 I don't care how big your star shines 1675 01:09:04,897 --> 01:09:06,482 and what you do at the box office. 1676 01:09:06,482 --> 01:09:11,195 You are still Quentin Tarantino deprived 1677 01:09:11,195 --> 01:09:12,821 if you haven't gotten a chance to work with him. 1678 01:09:12,821 --> 01:09:15,991 (indistinct) . ..your black ass. 1679 01:09:15,991 --> 01:09:20,162 (laughs) I get a chance to meet Quentin Tarantino. 1680 01:09:21,288 --> 01:09:22,748 Hey, white boy. 1681 01:09:22,748 --> 01:09:25,375 I said, hey, white boy. 1682 01:09:25,375 --> 01:09:26,543 Shut up, black. 1683 01:09:26,543 --> 01:09:28,253 You ain't got nothing' to say I want to hear. 1684 01:09:28,253 --> 01:09:36,178 You make unknowns, celebrities, stars. 1685 01:09:36,178 --> 01:09:38,972 But you turn stars into legends. 1686 01:09:38,972 --> 01:09:45,437 I said, I know the dude needs to be able 1687 01:09:45,437 --> 01:09:46,146 to ride his horse. 1688 01:09:46,146 --> 01:09:47,481 I got my own horse at the crib. 1689 01:09:47,481 --> 01:09:48,357 It'll be cool. 1690 01:09:48,357 --> 01:09:51,693 And not only did he allow me to take on the character, 1691 01:09:51,693 --> 01:09:53,153 but I got a chance to ride my own 1692 01:09:53,153 --> 01:09:54,863 horse in the film. 1693 01:09:54,863 --> 01:09:56,740 My valet, Django. 1694 01:09:56,740 --> 01:09:59,785 These are our horses, Tony and Fritz. 1695 01:09:59,785 --> 01:10:03,413 We had Bruce there, 1696 01:10:03,413 --> 01:10:06,083 Bruce Dern, who's done every western that's 1697 01:10:06,083 --> 01:10:07,751 ever been made for television, 1698 01:10:07,751 --> 01:10:10,212 played every bad guy you could imagine. 1699 01:10:10,212 --> 01:10:14,424 Django, Django, you got sin, 1700 01:10:14,424 --> 01:10:16,301 Django. 1701 01:10:16,301 --> 01:10:18,971 The boy's got sin. 1702 01:10:18,971 --> 01:10:21,223 When you've watched this man for however many year, what, 1703 01:10:21,223 --> 01:10:24,601 thirty, forty, fifty years of his career, 1704 01:10:24,601 --> 01:10:25,560 and to step in. 1705 01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:27,479 And that's what you need, you know? 1706 01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:30,941 No political correctness. 1707 01:10:30,941 --> 01:10:34,069 No softening the blows. 1708 01:10:34,069 --> 01:10:36,280 I want you to burn a runaway "R" right here on 1709 01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:39,324 his cheek, and the girl, too. 1710 01:10:39,324 --> 01:10:42,494 (gasps) Getting into the role and working with Quentin, 1711 01:10:42,494 --> 01:10:44,288 Quentin was, especially in the beginning 1712 01:10:44,288 --> 01:10:45,414 because he didn't know me. 1713 01:10:45,414 --> 01:10:46,582 You know, he knew Samuel. 1714 01:10:46,582 --> 01:10:47,499 He knew Christoph. 1715 01:10:47,499 --> 01:10:49,084 And so he was like, "Listen. 1716 01:10:49,084 --> 01:10:50,794 You know, we really got to put the work in." 1717 01:10:50,794 --> 01:10:52,796 And so I would come in and I was doing my lines 1718 01:10:52,796 --> 01:10:54,756 really sort of Jim Brownish, 1719 01:10:54,756 --> 01:10:56,758 like, you know, like I was already the guy. 1720 01:10:56,758 --> 01:10:57,968 And I remember him going, "Uh, 1721 01:10:57,968 --> 01:10:58,760 let's take a break." 1722 01:10:58,760 --> 01:10:59,386 He takes me in the room. 1723 01:10:59,386 --> 01:11:00,512 He says, "Hey, listen. 1724 01:11:00,512 --> 01:11:01,388 Listen. 1725 01:11:01,388 --> 01:11:02,764 You- you- you got to be a slave." 1726 01:11:02,764 --> 01:11:03,557 I said, "What do you mean?" He said, 1727 01:11:03,557 --> 01:11:06,518 "You- you have to be a slave." 1728 01:11:06,518 --> 01:11:07,769 And I said, " I- I don't get it." 1729 01:11:07,769 --> 01:11:10,856 He says, "You're already too macho 1730 01:11:10,856 --> 01:11:12,816 and you're too in control." 1731 01:11:15,527 --> 01:11:17,988 The Louis bag and the Range Rover you're driving, 1732 01:11:17,988 --> 01:11:19,656 all of this, and so you have to come in and 1733 01:11:19,656 --> 01:11:21,742 strip that all the way, 'cause I don't want this 1734 01:11:21,742 --> 01:11:25,662 to be a mistake that if I hired someone who is like 1735 01:11:25,662 --> 01:11:28,081 yourself or some other person who's well known, 1736 01:11:28,081 --> 01:11:30,250 that you couldn't break away from your persona and 1737 01:11:30,250 --> 01:11:32,627 that's why I work with the people that I work with. 1738 01:11:35,130 --> 01:11:37,924 And so the next day, I left all that at the crib 1739 01:11:37,924 --> 01:11:43,722 and sunk into that- that type of person who was 1740 01:11:43,722 --> 01:11:47,434 strong on the inside, but afraid to allow it to come out 1741 01:11:47,434 --> 01:11:50,771 because you would be murdered. 1742 01:11:50,771 --> 01:11:53,190 Imagine if anyone here saw someone you love and you 1743 01:11:53,190 --> 01:11:57,569 can't say nothing 'cause they'll kill you both. 1744 01:11:57,569 --> 01:12:02,157 (sings) Broomhilda, come on and get on my horse. 1745 01:12:02,157 --> 01:12:08,163 Broomhilda (beatboxing...) That was powerful. 1746 01:12:08,163 --> 01:12:11,333 Even in the rehearsal, I had to do certain things 1747 01:12:11,333 --> 01:12:14,252 in order to get the fear out of my character 1748 01:12:14,252 --> 01:12:16,797 when it came to Sam because he came in like this. 1749 01:12:16,797 --> 01:12:18,799 He howls to everything. 1750 01:12:18,799 --> 01:12:21,009 I can literally say he's 1751 01:12:21,009 --> 01:12:23,512 probably the best actor I've worked with. 1752 01:12:23,512 --> 01:12:25,055 You scaring me. 1753 01:12:25,055 --> 01:12:27,849 (gasps) Why is it I'm scarin' you? 1754 01:12:27,849 --> 01:12:31,019 Because you're scary. 1755 01:12:31,019 --> 01:12:32,104 Oh, fuck. 1756 01:12:32,104 --> 01:12:34,189 Oh, fuck, it's incredible. 1757 01:12:34,189 --> 01:12:36,108 I told Quentin Stephen was gonna 1758 01:12:36,108 --> 01:12:37,192 have his fans. 1759 01:12:37,192 --> 01:12:40,278 (chuckles) Stephen could read, write, count, 1760 01:12:40,278 --> 01:12:41,405 do all those things, 1761 01:12:41,405 --> 01:12:42,364 and he had a disguise. 1762 01:12:42,364 --> 01:12:44,825 He disguised himself as a feeble old man 1763 01:12:44,825 --> 01:12:46,368 and he wasn't. 1764 01:12:46,368 --> 01:12:48,495 And he realized that inside the confines of 1765 01:12:48,495 --> 01:12:50,747 Candyland, he was king. 1766 01:12:50,747 --> 01:12:53,417 Even when Calvin was home, he was king. 1767 01:12:53,417 --> 01:12:55,335 He's gonna stay in the big house? 1768 01:12:55,335 --> 01:12:57,045 Stephen, he's a slaver. 1769 01:12:57,045 --> 01:12:58,046 It's different. 1770 01:12:58,046 --> 01:12:59,464 In the big house? 1771 01:12:59,464 --> 01:13:00,716 The character is the characters. 1772 01:13:00,716 --> 01:13:01,299 And that's why I... 1773 01:13:01,299 --> 01:13:01,925 ...think people love 1774 01:13:01,925 --> 01:13:02,968 his characters is that 1775 01:13:02,968 --> 01:13:04,511 they are honest, whether you like them, 1776 01:13:04,511 --> 01:13:05,929 whether you agree with them or disagree with them, 1777 01:13:05,929 --> 01:13:07,222 they are who they are. 1778 01:13:07,222 --> 01:13:08,432 The film has already sparked 1779 01:13:08,432 --> 01:13:11,768 controversy over its repeated use of the "N" word. 1780 01:13:11,768 --> 01:13:14,563 And now, Director, Spike Lee says he won't go to see it. 1781 01:13:14,563 --> 01:13:16,189 Spike, (chuckles) Spike Lee's, 1782 01:13:16,189 --> 01:13:17,816 you know and I respect Spike Lee, 1783 01:13:17,816 --> 01:13:20,735 you know, but Spike Lee's that guy. 1784 01:13:20,735 --> 01:13:25,240 You know, it's like Spike Lee is like the- 1785 01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:30,120 the old dude with the nice little house that has the grass. 1786 01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:32,664 Don't you get on my grass, you little motherfuckers. 1787 01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:38,128 That's my grass, every blade of it is. 1788 01:13:38,670 --> 01:13:40,547 Little motherfuckers. 1789 01:13:40,547 --> 01:13:41,506 You know. 1790 01:13:41,506 --> 01:13:42,799 You're not gonna get 1791 01:13:42,799 --> 01:13:44,593 Samuel Jackson to say 1792 01:13:44,593 --> 01:13:48,138 nigger, nigger, nigger if he feels he's demeaning anybody. 1793 01:13:48,138 --> 01:13:50,140 You know, I mean Samuel Jackson's gonna turn to 1794 01:13:50,140 --> 01:13:51,933 you and tell you where to go. 1795 01:13:51,933 --> 01:13:54,227 You take Twelve Years A Slave, 1796 01:13:54,227 --> 01:13:57,022 which is supposedly made by an "auteur", 1797 01:13:57,022 --> 01:14:00,275 so Steve McQueen's very different from Quentin. 1798 01:14:00,275 --> 01:14:04,029 So when you have a song that says nigger three 1799 01:14:04,029 --> 01:14:06,323 hundred times in it and nobody says shit. 1800 01:14:06,323 --> 01:14:07,365 (sings) Nigger run, 1801 01:14:07,365 --> 01:14:11,828 nigger flew, nigger tore his shirt in two Run, 1802 01:14:11,828 --> 01:14:14,164 run or the pattyroller will get you Run nigger 1803 01:14:14,164 --> 01:14:15,624 run Well you better get away 1804 01:14:15,624 --> 01:14:18,293 So, it's okay for him to use it because 1805 01:14:18,293 --> 01:14:22,672 he's artistically attacking the system or the way people 1806 01:14:22,672 --> 01:14:24,341 think and feel in a way. 1807 01:14:24,341 --> 01:14:27,552 Then Quentin's just doing it to just scrape the 1808 01:14:27,552 --> 01:14:28,845 blackboard with his nails. 1809 01:14:28,845 --> 01:14:30,597 You know, and that's not true. 1810 01:14:30,597 --> 01:14:33,058 There is no dishonesty in anything that he writes 1811 01:14:33,058 --> 01:14:35,685 or how people talk, feel, or speak. 1812 01:14:35,685 --> 01:14:37,312 There you go! 1813 01:14:37,312 --> 01:14:39,314 The consumer, especially black consumers, 1814 01:14:39,314 --> 01:14:41,399 they understand that it's a movie. 1815 01:14:41,399 --> 01:14:44,319 Sometimes we get a little overboard with our 1816 01:14:44,319 --> 01:14:47,072 sensitivity level with- with everything, 1817 01:14:47,072 --> 01:14:49,407 because nobody was really payin' attention to that. 1818 01:14:49,407 --> 01:14:51,535 They were comin' to see their favorite director 1819 01:14:51,535 --> 01:14:54,120 direct some of their favorite stars. 1820 01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,706 If it's Quentin, if it's Samuel, 1821 01:14:56,706 --> 01:14:58,833 if it's Leo, it's Christoph, 1822 01:14:58,833 --> 01:15:01,253 Carry Washington, and myself, 1823 01:15:01,253 --> 01:15:04,798 I- I just find it hard for us to fuck that up. 1824 01:15:04,798 --> 01:15:06,758 All three are champions. 1825 01:15:07,759 --> 01:15:10,053 Samson's a champion. 1826 01:15:10,053 --> 01:15:11,513 Them other two pretty good. 1827 01:15:13,974 --> 01:15:15,559 Calvin-- You know we live in a very politically 1828 01:15:15,559 --> 01:15:18,311 correct society now to where almost everything, 1829 01:15:18,311 --> 01:15:20,230 it almost chokes art a little bit. 1830 01:15:21,982 --> 01:15:24,734 That's just the way it was. 1831 01:15:24,734 --> 01:15:26,611 What's your name, boy? 1832 01:15:26,611 --> 01:15:28,989 His name is Django Freeman. 1833 01:15:28,989 --> 01:15:30,949 His characters are a part of him. 1834 01:15:30,949 --> 01:15:31,992 It's how he creates. 1835 01:15:31,992 --> 01:15:33,702 But they're living breathing characters to him. 1836 01:15:33,702 --> 01:15:37,122 There's a great story that his mom told me about when 1837 01:15:37,122 --> 01:15:40,000 he was a little boy and he was playing with his GI Joes 1838 01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:41,543 and he was using foul language. 1839 01:15:41,543 --> 01:15:43,461 And I think it was like, you know, 1840 01:15:43,461 --> 01:15:44,671 "Fuck you. Die." 1841 01:15:44,671 --> 01:15:45,630 And you know, like, whatever. 1842 01:15:45,630 --> 01:15:47,215 And she came around the corner and she was like, 1843 01:15:47,215 --> 01:15:48,758 Quentin, don't you use that language. 1844 01:15:48,758 --> 01:15:50,093 And he said, "It's not me, Mom. 1845 01:15:50,093 --> 01:15:50,760 It's just the guys. 1846 01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:52,429 That's how they talk." 1847 01:15:54,180 --> 01:15:55,682 I count two guns, Nigger. 1848 01:15:59,686 --> 01:16:01,855 You said in seventy-six years on this plantation, 1849 01:16:01,855 --> 01:16:04,608 you've seen all manner of shit done to niggers, 1850 01:16:04,608 --> 01:16:06,234 but I notice... 1851 01:16:06,234 --> 01:16:07,527 you didn't mention kneecapping. 1852 01:16:07,527 --> 01:16:09,279 Oh, God! 1853 01:16:09,279 --> 01:16:10,739 Motherfucker! 1854 01:16:10,739 --> 01:16:13,992 Leonardo DiCaprio had a problem saying the word nigger. 1855 01:16:13,992 --> 01:16:14,784 "Pal. 1856 01:16:14,784 --> 01:16:16,119 (inhales) Pal, it's just. 1857 01:16:16,119 --> 01:16:18,663 (exhales) It's tough for me to say this." 1858 01:16:18,663 --> 01:16:20,624 And, uh, I remember Samuel Jackson going, 1859 01:16:20,624 --> 01:16:21,875 Get over it, motherfucker. 1860 01:16:21,875 --> 01:16:23,209 This is just another Tuesday, motherfucker. 1861 01:16:23,209 --> 01:16:24,753 I don't give a fuck about these motherfuckers. 1862 01:16:24,753 --> 01:16:26,379 Look at- look at who I am, motherfucker. 1863 01:16:26,379 --> 01:16:28,465 Fuck! And it was like... 1864 01:16:28,465 --> 01:16:29,758 You know, and I said, "Yeah." 1865 01:16:29,758 --> 01:16:31,384 I said, "Leo, Leo, we're- we're not friends." 1866 01:16:31,384 --> 01:16:32,927 I said, "This is just another Thursday. 1867 01:16:32,927 --> 01:16:35,180 This is your property. 1868 01:16:35,180 --> 01:16:36,264 These aren't humans. 1869 01:16:36,264 --> 01:16:37,599 These are your property." 1870 01:16:41,311 --> 01:16:42,771 And when Leo came in the next day, 1871 01:16:42,771 --> 01:16:44,397 it was literally like, I was like, "What's up, Leo? 1872 01:16:46,024 --> 01:16:46,983 What's up fam?" 1873 01:16:48,109 --> 01:16:49,110 He didn't speak. 1874 01:16:49,736 --> 01:16:51,112 You won't mind me handling this nigger 1875 01:16:51,112 --> 01:16:52,697 anyway I see fit. 1876 01:16:53,740 --> 01:16:55,283 He's your nigger. 1877 01:16:59,454 --> 01:17:03,500 Mr. Stonesipher, let Marshall and the bitches 1878 01:17:03,500 --> 01:17:06,294 send D'Artagnan to nigger heaven. 1879 01:17:06,294 --> 01:17:09,422 Quentin allowed us to transport back to that 1880 01:17:09,422 --> 01:17:12,717 time and it was- it was really real. It was intent. 1881 01:17:12,717 --> 01:17:17,472 Leonardo had that gigantic sequence where he becomes 1882 01:17:17,472 --> 01:17:20,475 wise to what Schultz and Django are up to. 1883 01:17:20,475 --> 01:17:24,479 He brought his hand down and smashed the glass. 1884 01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:28,566 So now blood is running down his hand. 1885 01:17:28,566 --> 01:17:31,194 He's kind of getting white. 1886 01:17:31,194 --> 01:17:32,612 Leo never breaks. 1887 01:17:32,612 --> 01:17:34,030 He goes all the way through 'cause he knows 1888 01:17:34,030 --> 01:17:35,156 it's a great take. 1889 01:17:35,156 --> 01:17:37,826 Where were we? 1890 01:17:37,826 --> 01:17:41,162 Quentin's right there, right at the lens next to him, 1891 01:17:41,162 --> 01:17:42,747 not in some video village. 1892 01:17:42,747 --> 01:17:44,124 In fact there are no monitors 1893 01:17:44,124 --> 01:17:46,960 on a Quentin Tarantino movie. There is no video village. 1894 01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,504 And you can see it in the performances. 1895 01:17:49,504 --> 01:17:54,217 Broomhilda here is my property and I can choose 1896 01:17:54,217 --> 01:17:58,513 to do with my property whatever I so desire. 1897 01:17:58,513 --> 01:18:00,390 After Leonardo finished, you know, 1898 01:18:00,390 --> 01:18:02,559 his fellow actors, his peers, 1899 01:18:02,559 --> 01:18:05,520 and the crew, basically, gave him a standing ovation. 1900 01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,522 And I think that it was the first time 1901 01:18:07,522 --> 01:18:10,608 that Leo had really been in that atmosphere, 1902 01:18:10,608 --> 01:18:12,861 that brotherhood, and that spirit of fun. 1903 01:18:12,861 --> 01:18:14,237 After a hundred rolls of film, 1904 01:18:14,237 --> 01:18:16,114 they, all of sudden, I'm- now I'm in chains, 1905 01:18:16,114 --> 01:18:18,199 like, all of a sudden they start playing music. 1906 01:18:18,199 --> 01:18:20,410 (sings) Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba... 1907 01:18:20,410 --> 01:18:21,536 (speaks) I was like, what's going on? 1908 01:18:21,536 --> 01:18:21,953 What's all this? 1909 01:18:21,953 --> 01:18:22,829 They start bringing out tequila. 1910 01:18:22,829 --> 01:18:24,581 I say, what? Oh, shit! 1911 01:18:24,581 --> 01:18:25,749 This is great. I said, what the fuck? 1912 01:18:25,749 --> 01:18:27,250 I said, what kind of set is this? 1913 01:18:27,250 --> 01:18:29,002 He says, "My kinda set, motherfucker." 1914 01:18:29,544 --> 01:18:30,545 Quentin had called 1915 01:18:30,545 --> 01:18:32,881 everybody in and- and- and we were waiting 1916 01:18:32,881 --> 01:18:36,676 for- for everybody to come in and we chatted and... 1917 01:18:36,676 --> 01:18:38,887 And then Quentin came and said, "Okay. 1918 01:18:38,887 --> 01:18:42,432 I thought about this for a long time and this morning 1919 01:18:42,432 --> 01:18:45,101 at three o'clock I came to the conclusion, 1920 01:18:45,101 --> 01:18:48,396 now this is what's going to happen." 1921 01:18:48,396 --> 01:18:50,690 And then he acted out that whole scene, 1922 01:18:50,690 --> 01:18:54,319 this big battle inside. 1923 01:18:56,571 --> 01:18:59,032 And then Quentin said, "Well, 1924 01:18:59,032 --> 01:19:00,742 I thought about ending the movie here, 1925 01:19:00,742 --> 01:19:03,244 but then this happens." 1926 01:19:03,244 --> 01:19:05,330 And he threw himself on the floor. 1927 01:19:05,330 --> 01:19:07,082 And he jumped up and threw his gun. 1928 01:19:07,082 --> 01:19:10,585 You know, I- I think he had like fifteen and shot 1929 01:19:10,585 --> 01:19:14,339 and- and really acted out the whole scene. 1930 01:19:14,339 --> 01:19:16,049 Bob Richardson was sitting there, 1931 01:19:17,759 --> 01:19:22,222 you know, trying to control his- his blood pressure. 1932 01:19:22,222 --> 01:19:25,809 And the- and the- the- the stunt coordinator, 1933 01:19:25,809 --> 01:19:29,229 who is about seven feet tall and five feet wide 1934 01:19:29,229 --> 01:19:32,774 was leaning against the wall like that. 1935 01:19:32,774 --> 01:19:36,611 (chuckles) And the- and the special effects guy 1936 01:19:36,611 --> 01:19:37,779 started to cry. 1937 01:19:37,779 --> 01:19:47,622 That main hall was literally destroyed 1938 01:19:47,622 --> 01:19:52,961 and the blood was squirted up to the second story. 1939 01:19:52,961 --> 01:19:55,004 Blood up to the gallery of that, 1940 01:19:55,004 --> 01:19:57,048 literally everywhere. 1941 01:19:57,048 --> 01:19:57,799 Ow! 1942 01:19:57,799 --> 01:19:58,216 God! 1943 01:19:58,216 --> 01:19:59,801 The furniture, the interior, 1944 01:19:59,801 --> 01:20:03,930 everything thrashed to the size of toothpicks. 1945 01:20:03,930 --> 01:20:07,308 And you want to tell me that's a true story? 1946 01:20:07,308 --> 01:20:09,727 True is what happened on the set. 1947 01:20:09,727 --> 01:20:13,648 True is what happens on the screen. 1948 01:20:13,648 --> 01:20:16,484 But the violence? No. 1949 01:20:17,443 --> 01:20:19,320 The violence is opera. 1950 01:20:20,738 --> 01:20:23,491 Django...! 1951 01:20:23,908 --> 01:20:26,202 You (indistinct) son of a... 1952 01:20:26,202 --> 01:20:28,496 Django's not trying to cure slavery. 1953 01:20:29,581 --> 01:20:31,374 He just wants to take out the people that did him 1954 01:20:31,374 --> 01:20:32,709 bad and get with his girl. 1955 01:20:35,670 --> 01:20:37,130 This is a love story. 1956 01:20:40,300 --> 01:20:42,093 Django is the- is the super hero. 1957 01:20:42,093 --> 01:20:44,304 He's the guy who rides off into the sunset. 1958 01:20:44,304 --> 01:20:46,764 And you don't see a lot of black characters that do that. 1959 01:20:46,764 --> 01:20:48,725 You don't see in Hollywood when a black character's 1960 01:20:48,725 --> 01:20:52,312 in that type of setting of slavery does what he does, 1961 01:20:52,312 --> 01:20:54,564 kills the bad white folks, gets his girl, 1962 01:20:54,564 --> 01:20:56,190 and rides off into the sunset. 1963 01:21:13,541 --> 01:21:14,751 It's about eight people trapped 1964 01:21:14,751 --> 01:21:16,669 in a blizzard in a haberdashery 1965 01:21:16,669 --> 01:21:18,254 in the middle of nowhere. 1966 01:21:18,254 --> 01:21:21,591 It's a mixture of western, who-done-it, 1967 01:21:21,591 --> 01:21:23,885 revenge movie. It's all those things. 1968 01:21:23,885 --> 01:21:25,136 Want to make a deal? 1969 01:21:25,136 --> 01:21:25,845 Huh? 1970 01:21:25,845 --> 01:21:28,097 The deal still stands, Chris. 1971 01:21:28,097 --> 01:21:30,600 You ain't got nothing we can't forgive. 1972 01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:32,727 The Hateful Eight is kind of almost like a- a 1973 01:21:32,727 --> 01:21:35,229 bookend of Reservoir Dogs. 1974 01:21:35,229 --> 01:21:36,898 It'd just be more bullshit. 1975 01:21:39,525 --> 01:21:40,944 This man set us up. 1976 01:21:40,944 --> 01:21:43,738 He creates an initial scenario, 1977 01:21:43,738 --> 01:21:45,573 an initial group of people, 1978 01:21:47,158 --> 01:21:49,160 and he throws them together 1979 01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:50,536 often in one room. 1980 01:21:50,536 --> 01:21:55,583 And then he explores what might happen by putting 1981 01:21:55,583 --> 01:21:58,461 this group of people in the same room, 1982 01:21:58,461 --> 01:22:00,964 like Reservoir Dogs or The Hateful Eight. 1983 01:22:00,964 --> 01:22:02,507 It's a complete ensemble piece, 1984 01:22:02,507 --> 01:22:06,094 which is pretty incredible because you've got eight people 1985 01:22:06,094 --> 01:22:09,722 in there talking to each other about some very specific, 1986 01:22:09,722 --> 01:22:13,893 interesting, and sometimes very hateful things. 1987 01:22:13,893 --> 01:22:20,400 (spits) (grunts) What the- (groans) (groans) 1988 01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:23,778 He lets the characters be infused 1989 01:22:23,778 --> 01:22:26,447 by the actors that he chooses to portray them. 1990 01:22:27,657 --> 01:22:29,742 He played me a piece of music and then he said, 1991 01:22:29,742 --> 01:22:31,786 "I think it would be nice if Daisy played the guitar 1992 01:22:31,786 --> 01:22:33,538 and sang this song." 1993 01:22:33,538 --> 01:22:35,206 It really focused me 1994 01:22:35,206 --> 01:22:37,542 because I had to practice that fucking instrument 1995 01:22:37,542 --> 01:22:40,795 everyday whenever I was not on camera. 1996 01:22:40,795 --> 01:22:44,507 (sings) I'll kill you bastards one and all I'll 1997 01:22:44,507 --> 01:22:48,219 gun the floggers down It was ama-I had never played 1998 01:22:48,219 --> 01:22:50,096 guitar in my life. 1999 01:22:50,096 --> 01:22:54,767 (sings) And you'll be dead Behind me John 2000 01:22:54,767 --> 01:22:59,272 When I get to Mexico. 2001 01:22:59,272 --> 01:23:00,815 He wanted it to come from the inside. 2002 01:23:00,815 --> 01:23:02,358 And when you are singing a song to yourself, 2003 01:23:02,358 --> 01:23:05,194 you're immediately going inward. 2004 01:23:05,194 --> 01:23:06,904 Give me that guitar. 2005 01:23:06,904 --> 01:23:09,407 I think he has a way of getting into each 2006 01:23:09,407 --> 01:23:13,286 character and letting them breathe 2007 01:23:13,286 --> 01:23:14,871 and create their life. 2008 01:23:14,871 --> 01:23:18,708 (laughs) He gave me the script. 2009 01:23:18,708 --> 01:23:22,253 He goes, "Here. You're Joe Gage." 2010 01:23:22,253 --> 01:23:24,630 A bastards work is never done, 2011 01:23:24,630 --> 01:23:26,966 huh, John Ruth? 2012 01:23:26,966 --> 01:23:28,843 That's right, Joe Gage. 2013 01:23:28,843 --> 01:23:31,888 And I said, "Thanks for thinking of me." 2014 01:23:31,888 --> 01:23:35,808 And he goes, "Michael, you were there at the beginning, 2015 01:23:35,808 --> 01:23:39,896 and by God you're gonna be here now, you know." 2016 01:23:47,070 --> 01:23:48,988 I find him to be the same man, 2017 01:23:50,114 --> 01:23:53,993 but just with a lot more of a pack. 2018 01:23:53,993 --> 01:23:56,871 He's more of a package than he was, you know. 2019 01:23:56,871 --> 01:23:58,206 He pays attention. 2020 01:23:59,290 --> 01:24:03,586 He also became much more sophisticated as a filmmaker. 2021 01:24:03,586 --> 01:24:06,798 His mastery of blocking and his mastery of camera 2022 01:24:06,798 --> 01:24:10,343 movement and that choreography is really 2023 01:24:10,343 --> 01:24:14,180 pronounced and you can really see his growth. 2024 01:24:14,180 --> 01:24:16,891 Also, you are seeing his maturity as a human being. 2025 01:24:16,891 --> 01:24:18,810 He may look at the same things, 2026 01:24:18,810 --> 01:24:21,729 but through the lens of where he sits right now. 2027 01:24:21,729 --> 01:24:25,108 Who said it that, uh, Kurt Russell's character was 2028 01:24:25,108 --> 01:24:26,901 based on, yeah. 2029 01:24:26,901 --> 01:24:29,153 I think John Ruth was a lot nicer guy that 2030 01:24:29,153 --> 01:24:30,363 Harvey Weinstein. 2031 01:24:30,363 --> 01:24:31,489 If Kurt was supposed to be Harvey, 2032 01:24:31,489 --> 01:24:34,242 then that must have been Harvey's good side. 2033 01:24:34,242 --> 01:24:35,827 You ruin that letter of his, 2034 01:24:35,827 --> 01:24:37,912 that nigger's gonna stomp your ass to death. 2035 01:24:37,912 --> 01:24:40,873 And when he do, I'm gonna sit back on that wagon 2036 01:24:40,873 --> 01:24:42,542 wheel, watch, and laugh. 2037 01:24:42,542 --> 01:24:44,919 (exhales) Yeah, if you read them on the page it 2038 01:24:44,919 --> 01:24:46,254 was a little more accurate. 2039 01:24:46,254 --> 01:24:48,381 Kurt's the most charming person on the planet. 2040 01:24:48,381 --> 01:24:52,176 When that sun comes out, I'm taking this woman into 2041 01:24:52,176 --> 01:24:54,512 Red Rock to hang. 2042 01:24:54,512 --> 01:24:57,640 The association of Quentin and Harvey 2043 01:24:57,640 --> 01:24:59,058 over twenty-five years, 2044 01:24:59,058 --> 01:25:00,935 it was a pretty good brotherhood. 2045 01:25:00,935 --> 01:25:03,271 It was a pretty good combination of Hollywood 2046 01:25:03,271 --> 01:25:06,983 power and of talent. 2047 01:25:06,983 --> 01:25:09,402 In the past, with the Weinstein Company, 2048 01:25:09,402 --> 01:25:12,530 whatever he said was- was the word of God. 2049 01:25:12,530 --> 01:25:14,699 These guys, there was a toll, 2050 01:25:16,284 --> 01:25:16,951 you know? 2051 01:25:16,951 --> 01:25:20,079 He earned, he made enough money for everybody. 2052 01:25:22,331 --> 01:25:22,915 We shot on seventy, 2053 01:25:22,915 --> 01:25:26,752 because he knew that if we went to the 2054 01:25:26,752 --> 01:25:28,504 expense of shooting on seventy, 2055 01:25:28,504 --> 01:25:30,548 they were gonna project it in seventy. 2056 01:25:30,548 --> 01:25:33,426 And it was the exhibition, which was as important 2057 01:25:33,426 --> 01:25:35,344 as the image capture. 2058 01:25:35,344 --> 01:25:39,599 Quentin cares about cinema and caring about cinema 2059 01:25:39,599 --> 01:25:41,601 means literally caring about cinema, 2060 01:25:41,601 --> 01:25:44,562 caring about film, the romance of cinema, 2061 01:25:44,562 --> 01:25:47,064 how it looks and feels, and for him, 2062 01:25:47,064 --> 01:25:49,817 he doesn't feel that digital technology 2063 01:25:49,817 --> 01:25:54,697 approximates the impact that that flicker has on us. 2064 01:25:54,697 --> 01:25:55,781 He just bought a theater. 2065 01:25:55,781 --> 01:25:57,658 He owns the new Beverly Cinema. 2066 01:25:57,658 --> 01:26:00,578 I've been going there recently introducing pictures. 2067 01:26:00,578 --> 01:26:02,288 I love the new Beverly. I was there last week. 2068 01:26:02,288 --> 01:26:03,414 We watched a print of Seven, 2069 01:26:03,414 --> 01:26:04,498 which had silver in it. 2070 01:26:04,498 --> 01:26:05,791 It was incredible. 2071 01:26:05,791 --> 01:26:06,542 It was so beautiful. 2072 01:26:06,542 --> 01:26:08,336 I mean Quentin leaned over to me and he's like, 2073 01:26:08,336 --> 01:26:09,420 "Take a good look. 2074 01:26:09,420 --> 01:26:10,671 You're never gonna see a finisher movie look 2075 01:26:10,671 --> 01:26:11,422 this good again. 2076 01:26:11,422 --> 01:26:14,008 (chuckles) It's like sad, but true. 2077 01:26:14,008 --> 01:26:15,551 He wrote it in the script, glorious seventy 2078 01:26:15,551 --> 01:26:19,388 millimeter about six times during the 2079 01:26:19,388 --> 01:26:20,181 first twenty pages. 2080 01:26:20,181 --> 01:26:22,266 And my jaw dropped when I saw that. 2081 01:26:22,266 --> 01:26:23,643 I was like, "You're kidding me, right? 2082 01:26:23,643 --> 01:26:25,102 You're gonna actually do this?" 2083 01:26:45,665 --> 01:26:48,084 Once he found this big, gorgeous, 2084 01:26:48,084 --> 01:26:50,628 beautiful seventy millimeter format, 2085 01:26:50,628 --> 01:26:54,715 he realized that there was an intimacy. 2086 01:26:54,715 --> 01:26:57,051 He'd shot a hundred close ups of Sam Jackson, 2087 01:26:57,051 --> 01:26:58,970 but he never shot a close up of Sam Jackson 2088 01:26:58,970 --> 01:27:00,638 that looked like that. 2089 01:27:00,638 --> 01:27:04,350 And you literally could get even deeper underneath 2090 01:27:04,350 --> 01:27:06,602 the skin and into the hearts and minds of these 2091 01:27:06,602 --> 01:27:10,064 characters and hold these big wide frames 2092 01:27:10,064 --> 01:27:13,651 so that you were almost in theater. 2093 01:27:13,651 --> 01:27:16,070 Everybody had to be on at every given moment in 2094 01:27:16,070 --> 01:27:19,073 those rooms all the time. 2095 01:27:19,073 --> 01:27:21,158 I don't know really that Quentin would have felt 2096 01:27:21,158 --> 01:27:23,869 all that comfortable doing the seventy millimeter thing 2097 01:27:23,869 --> 01:27:27,957 if Bob Richardson wasn't his partner doing it with him. 2098 01:27:27,957 --> 01:27:30,042 Bob brings so much to the table both 2099 01:27:30,042 --> 01:27:33,254 technically and creatively. 2100 01:27:33,254 --> 01:27:38,509 Quentin's exuberance and his enthusiasm for films 2101 01:27:38,509 --> 01:27:42,722 and filmmaking is so unbelievably vast. 2102 01:27:42,722 --> 01:27:46,225 And that's the way he was making Reservoir Dogs 2103 01:27:46,225 --> 01:27:48,394 and that's the way he is making The Hateful Eight, 2104 01:27:48,394 --> 01:27:52,231 and that spirit is contagious. 2105 01:27:53,524 --> 01:27:55,860 Quentin values friendship. 2106 01:27:55,860 --> 01:27:59,113 Quentin values deep relationships. 2107 01:27:59,113 --> 01:28:03,618 Quentin values a rag tag sort of family that is 2108 01:28:03,618 --> 01:28:06,454 more committed to each other than even actual blood. 2109 01:28:06,454 --> 01:28:08,539 And I think that you see that on our set. 2110 01:28:08,539 --> 01:28:10,833 (chuckles) That was a great one. 2111 01:28:10,833 --> 01:28:11,959 We have the same people. 2112 01:28:11,959 --> 01:28:14,086 Our script supervisor has been with Quentin since 2113 01:28:14,086 --> 01:28:15,129 Reservoir Dogs. 2114 01:28:15,129 --> 01:28:17,548 Our sound mixer, I think, has been with us since Pulp. 2115 01:28:17,548 --> 01:28:21,052 The makeup crew, stunts, everybody feels like 2116 01:28:21,052 --> 01:28:22,136 they're coming home. 2117 01:28:22,136 --> 01:28:23,387 It's that Quentin thing where you're suddenly 2118 01:28:23,387 --> 01:28:25,348 working around family and to see so many familiar 2119 01:28:25,348 --> 01:28:28,934 faces and that loyalty that Quentin has to his people, 2120 01:28:28,934 --> 01:28:30,353 his crew, and his cast. 2121 01:28:30,353 --> 01:28:31,812 There's music playing. 2122 01:28:31,812 --> 01:28:34,023 There's conversation. 2123 01:28:34,023 --> 01:28:34,857 There's laughter. 2124 01:28:34,857 --> 01:28:36,692 Quentin's like, "No cell phones on set. 2125 01:28:36,692 --> 01:28:37,485 Let's go to work." 2126 01:28:37,485 --> 01:28:40,154 And if you were caught with a cell phone, 2127 01:28:40,154 --> 01:28:41,864 you'd be fired, no matter who you are. 2128 01:28:41,864 --> 01:28:43,908 We called him Checkpoint Charlie where you had to 2129 01:28:43,908 --> 01:28:46,285 turn in your cell phone and he put it in a Ziploc 2130 01:28:46,285 --> 01:28:48,079 bag with your name on it, and there were absolutely 2131 01:28:48,079 --> 01:28:49,455 no cell phones allowed on set. 2132 01:28:49,455 --> 01:28:50,748 And so we talk to each other, 2133 01:28:50,748 --> 01:28:52,708 we dance, we sing, we laugh. 2134 01:28:52,708 --> 01:28:54,335 We talk about what we just did and 2135 01:28:54,335 --> 01:28:55,920 how we can make it better the next time. 2136 01:28:55,920 --> 01:28:58,130 Just like an extraordinary experience just being on 2137 01:28:58,130 --> 01:28:59,799 set when it's that down take. 2138 01:28:59,799 --> 01:29:01,759 He laughs openly during takes. 2139 01:29:01,759 --> 01:29:02,593 He cheers. 2140 01:29:02,593 --> 01:29:05,054 I imagine that he cuts himself out. 2141 01:29:05,054 --> 01:29:06,931 Douche Bag take one. 2142 01:29:06,931 --> 01:29:09,225 Twenty-eight prick, take two. 2143 01:29:09,225 --> 01:29:15,064 Humiliation, take one, mark. 2144 01:29:15,064 --> 01:29:17,483 (indistinct) Premiere take one. (indistinct) Premiere. 2145 01:29:17,483 --> 01:29:24,365 (laughs) His sets have become the most unique 2146 01:29:24,365 --> 01:29:26,325 set experience you can have. 2147 01:29:26,325 --> 01:29:28,119 What Quentin would say all the time, 2148 01:29:28,119 --> 01:29:34,625 "All right, we got this and we could move on, 2149 01:29:34,625 --> 01:29:36,419 but we're gonna do one more." 2150 01:29:36,419 --> 01:29:39,046 We're gonna do one more. 2151 01:29:39,046 --> 01:29:40,214 Why? 2152 01:29:40,673 --> 01:29:46,637 Because we love making movies. 2153 01:29:46,637 --> 01:29:48,723 I said, "Man, I'm- I'm- I'm on that train." 2154 01:29:49,557 --> 01:29:50,808 He's a fan. 2155 01:29:50,808 --> 01:29:53,227 You know he loves movies. 2156 01:29:53,227 --> 01:29:54,687 He appreciates people. 2157 01:29:54,687 --> 01:29:57,231 He's a fan of fans. 2158 01:29:57,231 --> 01:29:59,358 He appreciates life. 2159 01:29:59,358 --> 01:30:01,861 His way of socializing is inviting people over to 2160 01:30:01,861 --> 01:30:03,195 watch a movie. 2161 01:30:03,195 --> 01:30:05,114 He gets us all together. 2162 01:30:05,114 --> 01:30:07,158 He screens a movie of some sort. 2163 01:30:07,158 --> 01:30:08,534 Hey, everybody, come on and sit down. 2164 01:30:08,534 --> 01:30:10,161 Let's watch this. 2165 01:30:10,161 --> 01:30:11,662 And he'd go get some popcorn and sit there and 2166 01:30:11,662 --> 01:30:12,621 watch it with you. 2167 01:30:12,621 --> 01:30:15,249 It's a collective experience. 2168 01:30:15,875 --> 01:30:19,003 He was showing it to us for the first time. 2169 01:30:19,003 --> 01:30:20,754 We're just this group of, you know, 2170 01:30:20,754 --> 01:30:25,426 people and actors that he had chosen to use in his movie. 2171 01:30:25,426 --> 01:30:27,428 After the screening was over, 2172 01:30:27,428 --> 01:30:28,763 I couldn't help but notice. 2173 01:30:28,763 --> 01:30:33,559 He wasn't just sweating, he was- he was drenched. 2174 01:30:33,559 --> 01:30:38,272 And yet, I've never met anyone who honestly 2175 01:30:38,272 --> 01:30:41,692 comes even remotely close to the confidence he has when it 2176 01:30:41,692 --> 01:30:44,153 comes to making his movie. 2177 01:30:44,153 --> 01:30:46,405 It's amazing to me that he would have any nerves on 2178 01:30:46,405 --> 01:30:47,448 the other end at all. 2179 01:30:48,449 --> 01:30:50,826 But is shows, you know, how much he cares. 2180 01:30:57,958 --> 01:31:01,378 He was big and he was everywhere. 2181 01:31:07,301 --> 01:31:09,094 And everybody feared him. 2182 01:31:32,326 --> 01:31:33,744 Quentin and Harvey 2183 01:31:33,744 --> 01:31:35,496 Weinstein are two different animals. 2184 01:31:37,331 --> 01:31:37,748 I get it. 2185 01:31:37,748 --> 01:31:39,833 I understand why a lot of these girls 2186 01:31:39,833 --> 01:31:40,918 didn't say anything. 2187 01:31:42,002 --> 01:31:43,420 Their life depended on it. 2188 01:31:46,715 --> 01:31:50,219 If my livelihood, the preservation of my children, 2189 01:31:52,555 --> 01:31:54,598 if that is dependent upon someone 2190 01:31:54,598 --> 01:31:58,686 else that has power, like a Harvey Weinstein, 2191 01:31:58,686 --> 01:32:00,396 it's really scary. 2192 01:32:02,356 --> 01:32:06,277 That's the underbelly of the industry that 2193 01:32:06,277 --> 01:32:08,988 nobody knows about and it's really dark 2194 01:32:08,988 --> 01:32:10,990 and it's really fucked up. 2195 01:32:11,949 --> 01:32:13,492 I've been told things from a few people 2196 01:32:13,492 --> 01:32:15,077 who haven't even shown up yet. 2197 01:32:18,038 --> 01:32:19,873 I'll say exactly what Quentin said. 2198 01:32:19,873 --> 01:32:20,749 He simply said, "Listen. 2199 01:32:20,749 --> 01:32:22,710 I knew about it for a long time. 2200 01:32:24,003 --> 01:32:25,754 And I should have said something, but I didn't." 2201 01:32:29,174 --> 01:32:30,509 The fear factor 2202 01:32:30,509 --> 01:32:32,469 should never have entered into any of it. 2203 01:32:32,469 --> 01:32:34,346 And that's what I think the average person doesn't 2204 01:32:34,346 --> 01:32:38,100 understand, the fear and the emotional shutdown 2205 01:32:38,100 --> 01:32:42,813 that you'd have to force yourself into. 2206 01:32:42,813 --> 01:32:43,355 Oh, my God. 2207 01:32:43,355 --> 01:32:44,940 I can't believe what just happened. 2208 01:32:44,940 --> 01:32:46,942 And who am I gonna say anything to? 2209 01:32:46,942 --> 01:32:50,321 And if I do say something, I'm finished. 2210 01:32:50,321 --> 01:32:51,822 I won't be in another movie and 2211 01:32:51,822 --> 01:32:54,533 I won't be able to fulfill my life. 2212 01:32:54,533 --> 01:32:56,035 That's a pretty hard thing. 2213 01:33:08,589 --> 01:33:10,633 Now you find out about these hundreds of 2214 01:33:10,633 --> 01:33:13,260 thousands of dollars that was paid out to these 2215 01:33:13,260 --> 01:33:15,346 different girls in situations with him. 2216 01:33:16,513 --> 01:33:17,431 But see the people 2217 01:33:17,431 --> 01:33:18,932 who are complicit with that, 2218 01:33:18,932 --> 01:33:20,476 who followed his orders, 2219 01:33:20,476 --> 01:33:23,187 they're just as blameable and corrupted as- as him. 2220 01:33:23,646 --> 01:33:24,563 And a lot of that ain't 2221 01:33:24,563 --> 01:33:25,898 on the cover of Time Magazine. 2222 01:33:25,898 --> 01:33:27,024 They're still hiding. 2223 01:33:27,024 --> 01:33:29,443 There's a lot of them out there who were 2224 01:33:29,443 --> 01:33:31,278 more than happy to follow the 2225 01:33:31,278 --> 01:33:33,447 orders and the ideals of, 2226 01:33:33,447 --> 01:33:34,949 uh, Harvey's opinion. 2227 01:33:38,452 --> 01:33:40,287 And the fact that your own body, 2228 01:33:40,287 --> 01:33:44,583 your own face, your physical being is what you 2229 01:33:44,583 --> 01:33:46,752 use as your instrument of work, 2230 01:33:47,252 --> 01:33:49,171 and if that gets persecuted and that gets 2231 01:33:49,171 --> 01:33:50,839 ruined and that gets destroyed, 2232 01:33:50,839 --> 01:33:53,425 and somebody like Harvey has the power to do that, 2233 01:33:53,425 --> 01:33:54,510 don't hire that person. 2234 01:33:54,802 --> 01:33:55,886 And the people who would take 2235 01:33:55,886 --> 01:33:57,930 a call from a Harvey Weinstein, 2236 01:33:57,930 --> 01:33:59,139 "Oh, that was Harvey." 2237 01:33:59,139 --> 01:34:02,976 (smacks lips) "Yeah, he says not to hire so and so." 2238 01:34:08,732 --> 01:34:13,320 Having now separated himself so instantaneously 2239 01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:15,614 from Harvey, that was the end of it. 2240 01:34:29,128 --> 01:34:30,587 It's the end of an era. 2241 01:34:32,506 --> 01:34:34,341 It's an era that certainly made a point 2242 01:34:34,341 --> 01:34:37,803 and was envied by an awful lot of people. 2243 01:34:44,143 --> 01:34:45,352 He has moved on. 2244 01:34:49,523 --> 01:34:50,733 He's making a new movie. 2245 01:34:50,733 --> 01:34:52,359 He's doing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 2246 01:34:54,194 --> 01:34:54,945 And it ain't with the 2247 01:34:54,945 --> 01:34:55,946 Weinstein Company. 2248 01:34:56,613 --> 01:35:01,034 Quentin Tarantino is a rock star. 2249 01:35:02,661 --> 01:35:05,330 Quentin Tarantino can do a movie about any subject 2250 01:35:05,330 --> 01:35:07,791 matter that he wants to because Quentin Tarantino 2251 01:35:07,791 --> 01:35:10,002 stands out in front of the movie a little bit. 2252 01:35:14,882 --> 01:35:16,467 He's not gonna fade out. 2253 01:35:16,467 --> 01:35:18,510 This is why he talks about making ten. 2254 01:35:18,510 --> 01:35:21,388 He doesn't want to be that guy who people go, 2255 01:35:21,388 --> 01:35:22,931 "Oh, most of them was good, 2256 01:35:22,931 --> 01:35:25,476 but his stuff, you know as his stuff used to be, 2257 01:35:25,476 --> 01:35:27,686 but you know he's a bit too old for it now, 2258 01:35:27,686 --> 01:35:28,562 you know. 2259 01:35:28,562 --> 01:35:29,271 Bless him." 2260 01:35:29,271 --> 01:35:29,980 Doesn't want that. 2261 01:35:29,980 --> 01:35:31,064 I don't know, man. 2262 01:35:31,064 --> 01:35:33,734 I think he needs to live to a hundred and fifty or 2263 01:35:33,734 --> 01:35:36,570 two hundred years just so he can accomplish whatever 2264 01:35:36,570 --> 01:35:37,863 he wants to accomplish. 2265 01:35:37,863 --> 01:35:44,119 You know how his characters are related. 2266 01:35:44,119 --> 01:35:45,037 There's always a kind of a 2267 01:35:45,037 --> 01:35:47,206 family history that runs through. 2268 01:35:47,206 --> 01:35:47,998 I'm Doctor King Schultz. 2269 01:35:47,998 --> 01:35:49,458 This is my horse Fritz. 2270 01:35:50,375 --> 01:35:52,127 Full loads? Obviously. 2271 01:35:52,795 --> 01:35:57,549 Dandy Michaels, Joe Nash, and... 2272 01:35:57,549 --> 01:35:58,675 Crazy Craig Koons. 2273 01:36:00,010 --> 01:36:02,513 This here is Captain Koons. 2274 01:36:02,513 --> 01:36:05,390 He was in the POW camp with Daddy. 2275 01:36:05,390 --> 01:36:06,600 You know there's a family chain, 2276 01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:08,227 that there's a string that runs from the beginning 2277 01:36:08,227 --> 01:36:09,228 through to the end. 2278 01:36:11,188 --> 01:36:13,524 Hello, little man. 2279 01:36:13,524 --> 01:36:15,400 So I am in Hateful Eight, 2280 01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:18,612 the great- great grandfather of 2281 01:36:18,612 --> 01:36:20,739 Michael Fassbender's character 2282 01:36:20,739 --> 01:36:22,199 in Inglourious Basterds. 2283 01:36:22,199 --> 01:36:25,702 I'm watching Kill Bill, and there's Earl McGraw alive 2284 01:36:25,702 --> 01:36:28,455 as a character in it with his son, James Parks. 2285 01:36:28,455 --> 01:36:31,125 I said, "They got killed in From Dust Till Dawn One and Two." 2286 01:36:31,125 --> 01:36:33,043 He goes, "This happens before that." 2287 01:36:33,043 --> 01:36:34,086 I'm like, "Oh, God. 2288 01:36:34,086 --> 01:36:36,672 You- you like a gen-He's- he's- he reminds me of like 2289 01:36:36,672 --> 01:36:37,798 Norman Lear, you know, 2290 01:36:37,798 --> 01:36:40,175 how All In The Family begot The Jeffersons and 2291 01:36:40,175 --> 01:36:41,718 The Jeffersons begot the Good Times 2292 01:36:41,718 --> 01:36:43,053 and so on and so forth. 2293 01:36:43,053 --> 01:36:45,430 He was gonna make the Vega Brothers, 2294 01:36:45,430 --> 01:36:47,057 which would be me and John, 2295 01:36:47,057 --> 01:36:48,100 which would have been great, 2296 01:36:48,100 --> 01:36:48,934 right? 2297 01:36:48,934 --> 01:36:50,018 'Cause that would be believable, 2298 01:36:50,018 --> 01:36:50,644 right? 2299 01:36:50,644 --> 01:36:53,939 It would have to be a prequel because we're both dead, 2300 01:36:53,939 --> 01:36:55,649 which doesn't make sense, 2301 01:36:55,649 --> 01:36:57,484 but that's how it would be. 2302 01:36:57,484 --> 01:36:58,694 He's got his ten. 2303 01:36:58,694 --> 01:36:59,945 He'll do other stuff. 2304 01:36:59,945 --> 01:37:02,614 (stammers) And I know some of his plans and they're 2305 01:37:02,614 --> 01:37:03,657 fucking amazing. 2306 01:37:03,657 --> 01:37:05,701 You're writing your life story. 2307 01:37:05,701 --> 01:37:07,369 You bet I am. 2308 01:37:07,369 --> 01:37:08,787 Am I in it? 2309 01:37:08,787 --> 01:37:12,082 (chuckles) You just entered. 2310 01:37:12,082 --> 01:37:13,792 I mean, I wonder when he starts writing books 2311 01:37:13,792 --> 01:37:15,586 whether he will, some of these characters will 2312 01:37:15,586 --> 01:37:16,920 show up in his novels. 2313 01:37:18,589 --> 01:37:20,340 It's complete. It's a hundred percent. 2314 01:37:20,340 --> 01:37:23,552 And sacrificed relationship, 2315 01:37:23,552 --> 01:37:25,596 having children, all of that stuff to 2316 01:37:25,596 --> 01:37:27,598 pursue his dream. 2317 01:37:27,598 --> 01:37:30,142 He's a complete filmmaker and- and an artist in- in 2318 01:37:30,142 --> 01:37:31,351 the full on sense. 2319 01:37:32,561 --> 01:37:33,437 We're gonna miss it. 2320 01:37:33,437 --> 01:37:36,523 We're gonna miss the opportunity that he brings. 2321 01:37:36,523 --> 01:37:38,567 And it's true of all of us. 2322 01:37:38,567 --> 01:37:40,777 If your phone buzzes in your pocket 2323 01:37:40,777 --> 01:37:42,279 and you take it out of your pocket 2324 01:37:42,279 --> 01:37:43,280 and you look at it and it says 2325 01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:45,240 QT on it, you go please, please, 2326 01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:49,286 please, oh just please, please be one, please. 2327 01:37:49,286 --> 01:37:50,996 You know and (imitates phone on). 2328 01:37:50,996 --> 01:37:53,165 Hi. And he goes, "Hi. 2329 01:37:53,165 --> 01:37:54,708 Um, I've got something I want you to read." 2330 01:37:54,708 --> 01:37:56,001 And you're done. 174131

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