Quentin Tarantino on Terry Gilliam as Sundance Institute Mentor // SiriusXM // Stars 

Joe (Josef von) Sternberg knew all about lighting and camera effects, but was always open about the craft and excited to teach others how he accomplished the tricks. I'm not sure how many directors pretend their gift is intangible or unrepeatable / unteachable. I could name some names (Tarkovsky for one), but I don't really know if that's who they were. And they definitely aren't hacks necessarily.

ironic that Tarantino is one of those "pointless bullshit" producers ISN'T IT?

@@markmarsh27 bingo

@@markmarsh27 In what way?

@@vaclav_fejt If I had to put my perception of Tarantino in a single statement i would say that most of his dialogue is juvenile tough guy bullshit. ... If you compare the way his characters talk to each other to old Hong Kong kung fu movies from the 70's it starts to seems like that was all he ever watched, there's very little difference in the quality of the themes that drive his writing. ... IMHO

you come from an ancient era of YT. Are you still alive?

@@phillystevesteak6982 Alive and well, Master Philly.

The advice is that you just need a lot of money to make a good movie.

This is brilliant advice for everyone and anyone. If we were asked , 'what would you do if there were no time nor financial restraints on you'? Is this not what all of us would do: to dream up a vision - like an ancient Pharo - and get others to carry it out?

Guy -Ok quentin, how many feet do you want in this movie Quentin - yes

How about an amputated foot or feet like one of Robert Rodriguez's films?

*blood guy* "uh i've got 50 gallons of pig blood"

Now Leo's in the pool, & I want a gigantic closeup of his feet - like, just *FILLING the screen!*

OK, I'm on board then! 😁😁😁

Gilliam IS a Python.

The pythons let Gilliam go with his creative mind in joining the physical sketches together. He did this through a "flow of consciousness"

Now tell us how the Moon is a large rocky sphere that orbits Earth. BTW Gilliam is as much a Python as the other five Pythons.

"It's all theory until you do it." I have also been drumming this into my students for the last 16 years. I teach at an all girls convent.

Not necessarily young but new.

I can confirm this is 1000% true because ij my first or second year as a Filmmaking student I too had visions like taeantino and stylistic choices and all but then i realized that all I need to do is two things to make my vision come on screen 1- know exactly what you want no confusion pls 2 - be really good at talking with people . That's it that's all you need to be a director . Being a screenplay writer is another ballgame and that is tough than being a director

He is

Q was fortunate in that he managed to sell a few scripts before tackling directing (which is mostly luck) and thus had a budget, etc. That said, if you are starting out directing films yourself, unless you are shooting natural phenomena with some sort of handheld camera and editing it yourself, you're going to have people helping you - even if it is a few friends you roped into doing it for free. They obviously have some desire to help you. Let them do as much as they can. Your job is then to fill in the gaps and focus on coordinating the project, making the parts harmonize (or dissonate).

Robert Davis I agree with most of what you said but Quentin sold zero scripts before his directorial debut. A friend, who had connections to Harvey Keitel, read the script, loved it, passed it onto Harvey who also loved it and was crucial to the film being made.

True Romance was sold before Reservoir dogs was funded. Perhaps I was wrong about the money from the script funding the film. Meeting people and making impressions costs money.

+RyanGiggsOBE You are missing the point - If you can articultae or convey your vision of what you want to people then they will get involved. Gilliam and Welles are/where masters of this. Also if you cannot give jobs to other people its because you are in fear, not love of what you do. You must, must learn to trust people and understand that you are one voice in an orchestra. Even a piano or violin playing the lead part is just one voice. So go and sing, and make it tuneful and the whole world will sing along! :o)

+Robert Davis "(which is mostly luck)" No, just no, the guy is great at writing that not luck that hard work.

You must have never heard Tarantino speak before. You’re an idiot if you think he’s never been humble

​@@BLARG313Tarantino fans are such softcock losers.

Well, if you're starting out, you don't have a budget for an actual movie production anyway. So you could apply the advice to "hiring" your friends for the best roles to help you, getting like-minded indie movie people who know this or that (lighting, music, camera) to give a hand, etc for your indie short or whatever

That's because George Lucas doesn't delegate to other people but believe he can do better by himself.

Harvey Keitel received a copy of the script and loved it. His reputation helped get the film extra funding and, no doubt, attracted more interest in the project in general. Also, Tarantino had sold the screenplay for True Romance (An excellent film) so he wasn't entirely unknown. The key thing, as Gilliam says, is - have a strong vision that you can communicate clearly and know how to hire the right people for the job.

Because everyone who read the script thought it was the best script they had ever read, so it quickly spread within a small circle of Hollywood insiders like Harvey Keitel up to Danny DeVito. He was simply that good.

One of the KEY important aspects of any collaborative arts school/course is making contacts. The same goes for working on other people's projects, etc - making reliable and enthusiastic contacts you can call upon for projects when the time is right. After twenty years of making theatre I have a solid group of people I work with on a regular basis - it's very nice to trust someone with a job you know they will absolutely nail.

he's maybe a bad Uncle too ...

Bad uncles are the best people.

"genius" 🙄🤣🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕😞

Give a chance. Focus on the dialog and story

Jackie Brown

Meal Wheels35 The guy commented that 6 years ago 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

BLANKAR so?

Meal Wheels35 Jokes how u replied to him

MRI

Just like John Ford said.

Yeah, he was originally going to use the 30k he made from selling the Natural Born Killers script to shoot RD guerrilla-style on the streets of LA in 16mm black and white, but then Lawrence Bender gave the script to someone who happened to know Harvey Keitel, and Keitel liked it so much that he signed on as producer and got the budget raised to 1.5m. He also helped them fund casting sessions where they found Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen. I guess while that much was being invested in it, Tarantino felt he could use some polishing as a newbie director. You can watch the original demo tapes he filmed at the Sundance Lab on youtube (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-77rbAzLZUiw.html), and it's really interesting when you compare it to the final product. QT's vision is there, but it's all over the fucking place really- the camera work in particular. It's a very good job he realised he needed some help, because if he had gone with his original idea there is no way RD would have been as successful as it was. I had no idea one of his mentors was Terry Gilliam, however- that's pretty cool.

He set to appear in Battle Royale 2 as POTUS but didn't come out on fruition due to scheduling conflicts.