March 5, 2007

QTTV.

For those in the UK (or for anyone who can watch Sky Arts), tomorrow night, 9 pm: Iconoclasts: Quentin Tarantino and Fiona Apple. The not-so-unlikely pair chat as they tour the set of Grindhouse in Austin.

Grindhouse

For the rest of us, the London Times is running an extract from the conversation - Tarantino's half, that is. A few stand-out quotes:

Updated through 3/8.

  • "I don't ask permission. I might ask forgiveness, but I won't ask permission."

  • "Violence is one of the most cinematic things you can do with film. It's almost as if Edison and the Lumiere brothers invented the camera for filming violence."

  • "God didn't put me on the earth to die in an earthquake. After Pulp Fiction, maybe I could go."

  • "I consider making Kill Bill as like me climbing Mount Everest. I taught myself how to climb as I climbed it."

  • "Directors don't get better as they get older. They get worse — they get out of touch."

  • "I would have died for Reservoir Dogs. I would have died getting a shot for Pulp Fiction. I don't know if I would have died, would have thrown myself into that kind of harm's way, for Jackie Brown, and that scared me a little bit."

So he still doesn't realize that Jackie Brown is his best film.

Update, 3/8: Movie City News has a nearly 10-minute clip of Tarantino talking about Robert De Niro in around 1994 or so.



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Posted by dwhudson at March 5, 2007 7:01 AM

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The whole show is on YouTube.
Keywords: Q & Fi iconoclasts

Posted by: Ju-osh at March 5, 2007 7:42 PM

But at least he seems to be (perhaps unwittingly) admitting his old stuff is better than his new stuff.

I suppose I'll need to see Grind House to determine whether or not the two Bills were an aberration or if he's just no longer capable of/interested in making decent films like he did in the 90s. (We will, of course, leave his segment of Four Rooms to one side...)

Posted by: James Russell at March 6, 2007 12:03 AM