Quentin, great to meet you! The Hateful Eight
is so exciting, it's a real thrill. When I
was watching it I was thinking your movies
now are events and I was thinking, is that
your intention as a filmmaker to become prestige
filmmaker where everyone you do comes with
a kind of reputation, a sense of anticipation?
Well, that's definately the hope. I mean growing
up I was such a big fan of Brian Duplauma
that, maybe not to everybody else, but to
me every movie he did was an event.
And I've always hoped that I would have that
spot and I think the only reason that you
can have that kind of spot is like, look some
people like this type of movie some people
don't like that movie. But for the most part
there is a quality to the work and a standard
to the work that hasn't diminished as time
has gone on. This might not be your cup of
tea, that one might be more your cup of tea.
But the care and the artistic integrity of
them have kept to a certain level. I mean
that's what I hope.
There's so many ideas in your moives. I do
sit there thinking you could pump out three
of four a year, you could even do it under
a sudanim and pump out a decent super hero
movie. you stick to the genres you was to
do and you obviously have this great control
over your own work. But there must be people
knocking on your door asking you to you know,
could you tweak this script? Could you just
help me make this one a little cooler?
I don't get that knocking on my door that
much anymore becuase I just don't answer that
door basically and so it's kind of useless
for people to be knocking. One of the things
that make my movies special, theres a lot
of different things you could say, but I actually
think that one of the things that genuinely
makes them special, that is unique to me is
my dialogue. Other movies have good dialogue,
Arron Sorkin movies in particular have great
dialogue as far as I'm concerned. But that's
his dialogue. My dialogue is my dialogue and
yeah if I wanted to just pay for my alamoney
or buy and extra house in the Carribean or
something like that I could do dialogue polishes,
that would be very easy for me. But then I'm
giving my magic away to other people and I'm
also putting a price tag on it.
And this movie and all your other ones, I
can't imagine there's much convincing when
you approach actors? I always think actors
say, especially in there scenarios, oh well
I read the script and I liked it. I can imagine
people saying yes to you without having read
the script. Does that ever happen or do they
actually still ask you?
Well somebody might be very interested, I
wouldn't want anyone to say yes without reading
the script. If somebody said yes without reading
the script I'd be like woah, not so fast.
I want you to know what you're saying yes
to. I don't want you to say yes to a reputation.
I want you to say, I actually mean that, that's
a good question, I don't want you to say yes
to a reputation or yes to the prestige of
making one of my movies, I want you to say
yes to my character. It's not a mail order
bride I want you to be in love with my character
and that's the only actor I would trust with
my character.
