Director Quentin Tarantino looks back at his extraordinary career with BAFTA. Part of the Alfred Dunhill BAFTA A Life in Pictures series. Find out more on the BAFTA Website: www.bafta.org/a...
He's a true genius, and I'm not one to over play it. You'd have to be a real fool to not appreciate his artistic directing and writing skills - even if you don't like his films - you've got to appreciate the absolute insane amount of creativity and genuine hard work and effort that goes into his films. Probably one of the last big time "commercial" (well known) directors left that create amazing movies, one after another.
Tarantino's movies are not about violence, they're about violent people. The main subject isn't the violence itself, but the violent instinct within each character.
I dont mean to demean her or her great work but I just wanted to say Francine Stock is just so beautiful. So elegant. Great interview thanks for posting.
BKamron You're a bit oblivious if you cannot understand why QT is highly revered. If you listen to the words in his films - really understand them - and pay attention to the way he films his movies it's absolute genius. I'm a photographer whose dabbled in a little bit of cinematography and I can tell you through direct experience that what he creates requires an immense amount of intelligence, dedication and artistic vision. If you don't like his movies at the very least give him credit for the effort he puts into them. I think you really need to understand QT's movies to like him, he has a definite vision and intention and feel for each and everyone one of them and their characters - if you miss the point it might not be enjoyable, in which case I feel you have.
I love QT too. The first movie I saw of QT's was Kill Bill. That was the movie that made me realize that I wanted to write and direct movies as my passion. Thank you Quentin, you will always be my hero :)
As an aspiring filmmaker/screenwriter, I've always been inspired by Tarantino's interviews. I feel like I learn something about the craft with each interview.
He is a pure genius. He never went to film school to learn directing, script writing , music etc.Just look at his movies, most of them are blockbusters and have received numerous oscar nods. He himself have own two oscars for screenplay so far. A master of non linear story telling, truly one of best director of all time.
Quentin Tarantino is my idol. I love this man and I haven't even had the honour to meet him. He has inspired my filmaking and altered my reality through the world he creates in his wonderful films that will live throughout history as one of the most inventive and creative films ever written. My hopes and dreams are not to become like Mr. Tarantino but to learn from him and have him as my theoretical mentor. Thank you Mr. Tarantino for making my life just that little bit more wonderful.
He gets all he can from his actors, his camera directions and his music choice are the best. But there is nothing, nothing that can top Tarantino's writing. He is one of the best screenwriters in Hollywood and definitely should get angry whenever someone rewrites his script. Anyone listening to his dialogue it's like music, hilarious music.
I know. I also would've really liked them to talk about True Romance and, depending on when this was filmed, Hostel. Everyone always says they don't like Death Proof and how Planet Terror was the better half of Grindhouse, but I personally love it and think it was the stronger half. The visuals were stunning and it left me with a sense of completeness where Planet Terror, while still a great film, didn't. Death Proof is extremely underrated and anyone who hasn't seen it should.
If Tarantino took a shit on my doorstep I would kiss it and love it for the rest of my life. He's a fucking genius and I'm not saying that lightly, he is
A note to young screen writers trying to make it in the business. Ignore all the advice given by Tarantino as to the way you do things unless you're already a staggering genius. Trust me, if most you go in telling them they can't change your precious script, your precious script won't get done.
î can't get over the fact that the interviewer did an incredible job. taming the beast that is tarantino ain't easy. especially getting him to stop rambling on and start talking about his next movie
James that's what happens when you spend time with people speaking in a different accent haha. Especially when you're an actor. Quentin cut his teeth acting and making "my best friend's birthday" so it's not surprising he did that. He's also pretty good with accents.
Great interview, but I really wish people would stop ignoring Death Proof. It's one of my favorite Tarantino movies (right behind Kill Bill), and I never feel like it gets the appreciation it deserves.
Please just give the man respect......He's primarily a director, not an actor. So don't expect him to be a slick dude. Genius minds are usually not your stereotypical spotlight guy.
Hey congratulations ! U really have excelled urself with ur intelligent and in depth appraisal of my arguments and shown amazing levels of articulation and expression. I am sure U R just the type of audience Tarantino is aiming his films at !!!.
I love foreign films also. Roshomon is one my favorite movies ever. Werner Herzog is a huge influence on me. Guy Ritchie, Danny Boyle and Edgar Wright are some of my favorites as well. 60's French new wave genre films rock. Baz Luhrmann kicks ass. I just didn't name most of these folks because this comment section is finite. They belong in the "etc." part of my comment, but they're there. Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Almodovar are too brilliant, John Woo's Hong Kong films are sublime also.
I think he never said he was one of the best filmmakers or writers of all time. Those were labels given to him by people and to earn such labels, his works must have shown some impact. He also mentioned in this interview how he was often misinterpreted, like how some scenes are seen as homages when they really aren't. And frankly, I think this is one of the most honest interviews I've seen and he's been nothing but himself. So, all I'm saying is: RESPECT THE DUDE.
That's what happens when the public turns you into a pop culture icon. For as great as Tarantino is, there's many more terrific and supremely-talented directors of this generation that don't get the amount of adoration or success that he does. It's like when people (typically critics) cite the amount of influences that Orson Welles's Citizen Kane had on cinema, but neglect dozens if not hundreds of equally brilliant filmmakers whose lasting impact may not have been as well-remembered.
+Bazza598 true. not even younger or more fun but just a person who actually LOVES movies and this lady doesn't. In fact I highly doubt she even knows what real love is
Retarded thought. The interviewer did a phenomenal job of using her prepped knowledge to get Tarantino into the interview setting while he was clearly nervous.
David S. Goyer is a good blockbuster film writer. He writes decent superhero films like Blade and Ghostrider, but he only gets story credit on the best superhero films such as The Dark Knight series. When he writes a story as complex and puzzling and mind-bending and original as "Memento", "Inception", "Adaptation", "Being John Malkovich", "Schenecdoche NY" (?) or "Pulp Fiction" then I'll include him amongst the greatest screenwriters. He takes the easy jobs, the others takes the hard ones.
Further examination on Tarantinos work; will reveal that he himself has been influenced by almost every classic film, every era of film, and that his movies are in fact about FILM. So yeah, I agree with you.
Yes i do, take Kurt Russell's character in "Death Proof" for example, in that scene when he crashes into the girls' car and rips one of the girl's legs off, the scene is violent, but the real violence is seconds earlier when he stops his car and starts to plan that action. It's a character that feels pleasure doing that, and that is, in my opinion, more violent than the scene itself.
