Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and UpdatedHere, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed "film geek," with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes Quentin Tarantino's reputation, from his breakout film, Reservoir Dogs (1992), through Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), his enchanted homages to Asian action cinema, to his rousing tribute to guys-on-a-mission World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds (2009). For those who prefer a more mature, contemplative cinema, Tarantino provided the tender, very touching Jackie Brown (1997). A masterpiece--Pulp Fiction (1994). A delightful mash of unabashed exploitation and felt social consciousness--his latest opus, Django Unchained (2012). From the beginning, Tarantino (b. 1963)--affable, open, and enthusiastic about sharing his adoration of movies--has been a journalist's dream. Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, revised and updated with twelve new interviews, is a joy to read cover to cover because its subject has so much interesting and provocative to say about his own movies and about cinema in general, and also about his unusual life. He is frank and revealing about growing up in Los Angeles with a single, half-Cherokee mother, and dropping out of ninth grade to take acting classes. Lost and confused, he still managed a gutsy ambition: young Quentin decided he would be a filmmaker. Tarantino has conceded that Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), the homicidal African American con man in Jackie Brown, is an autobiographical portrait. "If I hadn't wanted to make movies, I would have ended up as Ordell," Tarantino has explained. "I wouldn't have been a postman or worked at the phone company. . . . I would have gone to jail." |
Contents
Interview at Cannes 1992 | 3 |
A Talk with Quentin Tarantino 1992 | 20 |
Interview with Quentin Tarantino 1992 | 23 |
Reservoir Dogs Press Conference 1992 | 28 |
Answers First Questions Later 1993 | 34 |
Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction 1994 | 49 |
Interview with Quentin Tarantino 1994 | 53 |
When You Know Youre in Good Hands 1994 | 61 |
Quentin Tarantino Reveals Almost Everything That Inspired Kill Bill 2003 | 118 |
An Interview with Quentin Tarantino 2003 | 127 |
Total Tarantino 2004 | 131 |
Tarantino Bites Back 2008 | 137 |
Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds Interview 2009 | 147 |
The Inglourious Basterds Interview 2009 | 153 |
Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds Interview 2009 | 161 |
Tarantino Rewrites History 2009 | 165 |
Four X Four 1995 | 78 |
Quentin Tarantino 1996 | 83 |
Quentin TarantinoOn Ambition Exploitation and Playing Psycho 1996 | 95 |
Press Conference on Jackie Brown 1997 | 101 |
Quentin Tarantino on Adapting Rum Punch Moving the Story to LA Elmore Leonards Opinion 1998 | 107 |
The Mouth and the Method 1998 | 112 |