#quentin

In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with rhythm and blues: He's found (ingeniously) a way to take what is ragged and distinctive and menacing about their work and homogenize it, churn it until it's smooth and cool and hygienic enough for mass consumption. Reservoir Dogs, for example, with its comically banal lunch chatter, creepily otiose code names, and intrusive soundtrack of campy pop from decades past, is a Lynch movie made commercial, i.e., fast, linear, and with what was idiosyncratically surreal now made fashionably (i.e., "hiply") surreal [...] D. Lynch is an exponentially better filmmaker than Q. Tarantino. For, unlike Tarantino, D. Lynch knows that an act of violence in an American film has, through repetition and desensitization, lost the ability to refer to anything but itself. A better way to put what I just tried to say: Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#david-foster-wallace #david-lynch #film #muzak #quentin-tarantino

I like Bill a lot. As Bill is presented, I mean you don't ever see Bill blow her head off? You know? And I think what Quentin has done is he created a monster. ↗

— David Carradine

#blow #created #done #ever #head

But as for me:I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can I can be is me. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite. ↗

— John Green

#quentin #life

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#coen #directors #everyone #feel #film

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#body talks #came #character #city #him

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#controlled #ever #fun #him #i