But when the opportunity for this one arose, we decided to make an exception.
In this case, I can do something with five minutes.
Arent five Tarantino minutes the equivalent to ten minutes with most other interview subjects?
And, most importantly, how else are we going to find out his favourite Jason Statham film?
Heres how it went.
Quentin Tarantino:Is that a vintage Ninja Turtle shirt?
Den of Geek:Its a new shirt, but it is the original comic book art on there.
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Is the guy who created it, is he still married to that porn actress?
Hes married to someone else now.
Hes been working with Robert Rodriguez recently.
Oh, we should do an interview though.
I have so little time.
It starts now, officially.
(signals to person with stopwatch)
I sawThe Hateful Eightand loved it.
Like all of your films, it has a lot of intricate story strands.
How do write something like that?
Do you outline a lot?
And how long does it take to produce the script?
I tried to do this one in a different way than I had done my other scripts before.
Six months to nine months, more or less.
Somewhere in between there.
Maybe its gotten a little less as time has gone on, so more in the six month variety.
But what I make a run at do is, I kind of write them like a big novel.
I want the characters to dictate themselves.
Other than some touch ups along the way, or little tweaks.
This one I did differently, differently than Ive ever done before.
So I decided to write three different drafts of the piece.
Just the idea of telling the story three different times and seeing what that did to the ending.
And I didnt have a mandate to deal with everything at once.
I wanted to just let it evolve naturally.
I actually really liked writing this way, I thought this was a fun way to do it.
What would you double billThe Hateful Eightwith, out of your own movies?
Out of my movies?
Well, if they werent so bloody long,Django Unchained.
I think they fit really good together.
But at the same time, it fits just as equally withReservoir Dogs.
But I had no problem with that.
There was even a bit of a full circle quality to it.
And I thought that was an interesting thing.
No, I didnt at all, frankly.
That was part of it, was to not know.
I wanted to discover, at least in that first draft, on my own.
In the second draft, the people who ended up hanging out to the end were a different group.
So I was very open with it.
But youre hitting on something very interesting.
I wanted to explore until I got to what I thought was the best ending.
So the three different drafts had three different endings.
And the last one seemed like the one.
The stopwatch is not happy for me to ask another question.
However…)
Let him just do a quick one.
What is your favourite Jason Statham film?
Thats a pretty good question.
I think it would have to be… let me think about that.
It would have to beSnatch.
Of the ones Statham leads,Crank.)
Quentin Tarantino, thank you very much.
The Hateful Eight is in UK cinemas from January 8th.
