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Who do you know right
now that's dangerous?

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I got a friend and he and
I love to fuck shit up.

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There is no one like Quentin.

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There's Quentin.

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He makes a different
kind of movie.

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You're gonna land the
word nigger a hundred

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and ten times on Christmas?

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Quentin loves strong
female characters.

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Brilliant, hilarious,
and disturbing.

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From the mind of
Quentin Tarantino,

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he really is a powerhouse
of creativity.

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It's Quentin's World.

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It's his baby.

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He wrote it.

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He's a lightning rod.

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He's absolutely unique.

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He's the voice of
his generation.

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It's the end of
an era of Quentin

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and the Weinstein Company.

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He's not gonna fade out.

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This is why he talks
about making ten.

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Quentin is a champion
of the female.

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And he's just the build,

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but he gets the
opportunity to do this.

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And then there are the movies.

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Now, that's what he
says about himself,

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about how he sees the world,

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his very purpose of existence.

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Quentin's sort of a
natural born filmmaker.

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It's his passion.

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It's where he connects
with the full range of

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human feeling.

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And I think that you really
see the through line

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of his fascinations as
a human being running

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all the way through
what matters to him,

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looking at race in America...

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...looking at what is romance...

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...commitment...

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...honor...

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...betrayal,

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loyalty...

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...and people having to

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do the right thing.

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It's for sure the end of an era.
The Weinsteins

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have been the distributor of
every single film of

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...his in the United States.

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Eight movies, all of them,

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very successful.

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He surely is immortality.

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A friend of mine, he turned
me onto Quentin Tarantino,...

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...who was

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stuffing video boxes at
Imperial Entertainment.

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And we had this meeting
and he seemed like kind of

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an overzealous geek.

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Pardon, pardon me.

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But guess what?

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He had the talent to back it up.

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He would sleep on my couch.

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I don't think he had
a car at the time

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and flat broke.

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"I want to get in
the movie business.

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Do I think I can write?

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I'm gonna give it a stab,
'cause all it takes is

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a pen and paper."

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I asked him about

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writing on a computer.

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He said, "You can't
write on a computer."

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I'm like, "Why not?"

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He's like, "You can't write
poetry on a computer.

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He's like, "My pen is
my antennae to God.

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That's how I write.

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It just- it just flows.

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It's just a receiver."

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He has a red pen and a
black pen, felt tip,

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and yellow legal pad, and
dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit-dit.

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That was it.

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Five minutes later,
he's got dialogue that would

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take some people an
entire lifetime to write.

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I think Quentin
basically writes novels

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and then when he's directing,
he's basically adapting

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his own novel to the screen.

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A lot of different
things are gonna happen.

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It's a roller coaster ride.
Oh, yeah, baby.

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You're gonna be horrified.

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(groans)

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You're gonna feel relief.
Then say something.

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Something.

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You're gonna feel romance.

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Quentin is above all a romantic.

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First script,
True Romance,

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Clarence saving Alabama is
the beginning of rescuing

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the princess that really
pays off in Django coming

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back to rescue Broomhilda.

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The first script of his I read
was Natural Born Killers.

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And when I read that I went,

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whoa, this guy's amazing.

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Then I read True Romance.

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I went, what the?

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What's going on.

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What's wrong with Hollywood?

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Where is everybody?

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You'd take home a slog of
twenty scripts a weekend

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and you're looking for
that thing that jumps off

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the page where the
characters are alive,

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where the dialogue
doesn't feel trite.

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Every kid wants to
give you a script

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and you- you- you with
the best intentions,

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you go, God, I
hope this is good.

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And then by page two
it's like turning like

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(groans)
oh, I can't turn the page.

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This is really just terrible.

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Not with Quentin.

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No way.

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Oh, they're brilliant
screenplays.

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Can you imagine having to
sell those to pay your rent?

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I mean, wow, you know.

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(inhales) I read a lot.

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(exhales)
Especially about things

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about history.

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I find that shit fascinating.

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Here's a fact.

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I don't know whether
you know or not.

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Well...

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Sicilians were
spawned by niggers.

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Uh, come again?

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(laughs)

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You look at the stuff
that Quentin writes.

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If it was on stage,
he'd have the Pulitzer.

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You know, because it's movies,

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everyone said, "Oh,
he was in a video store.

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He stole."

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Which of course launched
a thousand people working

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in video stores going,

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"Oh, I'm gonna be
the next Tarantino."

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Well, literally,
there's Quentin

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and there's everyone else.

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There's great stories,
great characters.

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Later on in the story...

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Clearly in True Romance,

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Clarence is a surrogate
for Quentin.

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You see his love of cinema
present in his voice

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as he expertly carries
you through his films.

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(overlapping) Oh! Ooh. You
have three kung-fu moves.

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In the original draft,
his version of True Romance,

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it was non-linear storytelling.

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The audience is
ahead of the characters

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and on the edge of their seat

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'cause they know
something bad's coming.

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And Tony Scott in his
adaptation made it linear,

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and Quentin loves True Romance,

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but Clarence died in
Quentin's version.

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Sweetie! (sobs)

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He had sold True Romance.

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He was hoping to direct it.

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Baby!

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He wasn't gonna be able to.

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He couldn't get anywhere
with Natural Born Killers.

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Um, he couldn't get that
going to direct, also.

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And he wrote Reservoir
Dogs so that it would be

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set in one contained place,

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so that no matter what happened,

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he was gonna direct this movie

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with the twenty thousand
dollars he had made on

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Golden Girls residuals for
being an Elvis impersonator.

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(sings) I do love you
with all my heart.

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I read a script of

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Reservoir Dogs and I just
hoped that the writer

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who said he was going
to be the director

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was really a director.

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I introduced him to my
friend Lawrence Bender,

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and Lawrence got Reservoir
Dogs all up and running.

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And Lawrence said,
"Give me a month.

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I know somebody who
knows Harvey Keitel."

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And Harvey said yes.

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I was pumping gas, man.

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I was driving a tow truck and,

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uh, I had done Thelma and Louise

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and I had done
some episodic TV.

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And I got that
thing and, you know,

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I- I- I'd never read
anything like it in my life.

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These guys and they're
named after colors.

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Mr. Brown, Mr. White,
Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue,

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Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink.

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Why am I Mr. Pink?

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And I remember my agent,
she was saying,

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"Well, you know, they all kill
each other at the end and,

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(clicks tongue) you know,

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there's no money
and, uh, you know,

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nobody's ever heard of
this Quentin guy and...

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You have no way of knowing

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with a first time director
whether they can direct or not.

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You never know.

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But Quentin, even then,
prior to making any film,

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knew every actor's resume.

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This guy was in this.

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I want this guy from this,
and this Lawrence Tierney

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was in Dillinger and I want him.

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He just set about putting
together the ensemble

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and it came out exactly
the way he wanted it.

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I don't know why he had me
stuck in his head to play

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Mr. Blonde, 'cause I didn't
want to play Mr. Blonde.

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I didn't want to get shot
by Tim Roth, you know.

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I don't want to be
killed by Tim Roth.

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I was like, hey, man,
"Who's Tim Roth?"

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I went along and met with him

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and- and Harvey Keitel.

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And they wanted me to read
and I wouldn't read for it.

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I'm very bad at auditioning.

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I got to memorize all of this?

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There's over four fuckin'
pages of this shit.

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And they pushed, you know,
they were pushing me.

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And so, me and Quentin
went and got some food

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and then some beer, and then
we went down to a pub near me

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and we got more beer.

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And we read every
character in the script

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I don't know how many times.

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I'd let Harvey Keitel kill me,

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but I don't, I'm not getting
killed by Tim Roth.

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I was on the floor in
a disproportionate

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amount of blood to
what you can actually

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contain in a human body.

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At the end of the day, one day,

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we- we- we hugged each other.

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And, you know, we're
both covered with blood,

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but it's- it's syrup,
basically.

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It's- it's fake.

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It's stage blood and
so when it starts to dry

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a little bit it
gets extremely sticky.

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And we were hugging
each other, like,

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you know, doing
the big guy hug thing

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and we- we couldn't get apart.

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We were stuck together.

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(laughs)

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And the wardrobe people
were convinced that

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if we forcefully separated
that it would tear

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the clothes apart,
and they didn't have

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a lot of budget for wardrobe.

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In fact, that was my suit.

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He told us to come to work in
a black suit with white shirts.

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They gave us the ties.

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That was about it.

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And if you watch the movie,

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Steve Buscemi
has black jeans on.

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Those aren't- aren't-
aren't suit pants.

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They're black jeans, man.

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And my suit, the
jacket or the pants,

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don't go together.

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They're from two
different suits.

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When I see the movie,
that's all I remember is

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my pants were too tight, man.

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They were making me crazy.

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And I didn't have black shoes.

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He wanted everyone
to have black shoes.

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I didn't have any.

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But I had black
cowboy boots, see.

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So that's how
the razor ended up

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being in the boot,

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because what am I gonna
do with this razor?

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
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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
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And he'd go, "No, no, no.

267
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We'll- we'll-
we'll shoot another day.

268
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We'll shoot another day."

269
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He didn't want to do,
um, the dancing.

270
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Didn't want to do it.

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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
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I'll do it,"
(laughs)

275
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from the floor.

276
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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
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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.