02.08.10 QUENTIN TARANTINO FIELDS AN AVATARD QUESTION
Jeff Wells recently posted a few clips from a filmmaker’s panel at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in which Quentin Tarantino is his normal ball of coked-up energy, while Hangover/Old School-director Todd Phillips sits off to the side looking like he’s just here for the gang bang. Someone asked Tarantino about Avatar, because that’s the thing to do now:
[Question from the audience]: Avatar is indeed a game-changer. Do you think you will ever leave your genre-oriented directing and try a movie that is technologically more arresting?
Tarantino: What, just because he did it in 3D? [laughter] I’ll tell you what would’ve been a game changer as far as I was concerned, if I had seen Avatar before I’d made Kill Bill. One of the things I was thinking, was when I did Kill Bill, I had these grandiose visions in my head, of the experience of watching the movie, and I actually wanted it to be more like being on a ride. …I don’t think I did that. It wasn’t quite the ride I had envisioned at my most grandiose. And when I saw Avatar, I was like, ‘That’s the ride!’
I think it would’ve been better if he’d just left it at, “What, just because he did it in 3D?” What kind of prick asks that kind of question, anyway? You ask Werner Herzog a question like that, he’s liable to carve out your larynx and eat it. Seriously, I’ve seen him do it.
Tarantino discussing first week of shooting on Reservoir Dogs:
Tarantino talking about a conversation he had with Brian DePalma:
[hat tip: /Film]
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QUENTIN TARANTINO FIELDS AN AVATARD QUESTION
Bonus dickslap points for including “game-changer” in the question. Ridley Scott’s faithful adaptation of Monopoly will be a game-samer.
“I sez to him, I sez: Don’t change games partway through, else you’ll get my right hand red up your Boggle. Now shut up and count my money.”
Quentin Tarantino calls a decent haircut Unobtanium.
But seriously, Quentin refusing to shoot pickups is why Chevy won’t return his phone calls.
Tarantino, I love you, but don’t encourage Cameron.
I think the reason directors like Tarantino and Terry Gilliam are reluctant to shit all over Avatar is that they’re hoping to borrow some of that fuck-you money from Cameron.
When Tarantino starred in Destiny Turns on the Radio, he wanted to take you on a ride in Billy Joel’s car.
I think someone should have asked him when he’s going to cut the cord to the Weinsteins. I still love you Quentin and want to make out with your ginormus forehead. But flee the reaper already.
In other news…Mr. Tarantino is slated to play the cyclops in the upcoming remake of Krull.
I believe “Tarantino” is Latin for “grandiose head”
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