Title: Quentin Tarantino : interviews /
Authors: Tarantino, Quentin; Peary, Gerald.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Tarantino, Quentin Interviews.; PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts); Motion picture producers and directors United States Interviews; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Abstract: "Here, 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) / Michel Ciment and Hubert Niogret -- A talk with Quentin Tarantino (1992) / Gerald Peary -- Interview with Quentin Tarantino (1992) / Peter Brunette -- Reservoir dogs press conference (1992) / Toronto International Film Festival -- Answers first, questions later (1993) / Graham Fuller -- Quentin Tarantino on Pulp fiction (1994) / Manohla Dargis -- Interview with Quentin Tarantino (1994) / Michel Ciment and Hubert Niogret -- When you know you're in good hands (1994) / Gavin Smith -- Four X Four (1995) / Peter Biskind -- Interview : Quentin Tarantino (1996) / J. Hoberman -- Out of the past : Quentin Tarantino-on ambition, exploitation, and playing psycho (1996) / Don Gibalevich -- Quentin Tarantino : press conference on Jackie Brown (1997) / transcribed by Peter Keough -- Quentin Tarantino on adapting Rum punch, moving the story to LA, Elmore Leonard's opinion (1998) / Adrian Wootton -- The mouth and the method (1998) / Erik Bauer -- Quentin Tarantino reveals almost everything that inspired Kill Bill (2003) / Tomohiro Machiyama -- An interview with Quentin Tarantino (2003) / Jeff Otto -- Total Tarantino (2004) / Mary Kaye Schilling -- Tarantino bites back (2008) / Nick James -- Quentin Tarantino Inglorious basterds interview (2009) / Kam Williams -- Quentin Tarantino : the Inglorious basterds interview (2009) / Ella Taylor -- Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious basterds interview (2009) / Mali Elfman -- Pulp and circumstance : Tarantino rewrites history (2009) / Terry Gross -- Days of gloury (2009) / Ryan Gilbey -- Tarantino "unchained" : Django trilogy (2012) / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.