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steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then
tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything.
Great artists steal, they don't do homages.
Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment.
I
guess I'll have to marry Elvis Presley to get even.
I've
always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically
professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
I
steal from every movie ever made.
The
next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese
stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in
Mandarin.
Violence
is one of the most fun things to watch.
If
I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great!
I've accomplished something.
I
write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't
like movies about people who are pulverized for being mavericks.
I
am a genre lover – everything from Spaghetti Western to Samurai movie.
When
people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to
films.'
It's
like surf music, I've always like loved that but, for me, I don't know
what surf music has to do with surf boards. To me, it just sounds like
rock and roll, even Morricone music. It sounds like rock and roll
Spaghetti Western music, so that's how I kind of laid it in.
Movies
are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the
position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a
movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
Sure,
and that’s the cool thing about DVD: You can pack stuff on the disc
that would’ve been too much for the big screen because actually it
would’ve only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna
know everything.
To
me, torture would be watching sports on television.
First
off, I've always thought of the black suits as mine, so I don't think of
them as Agent Smiths, I think of them as Reservoir Dogs with less cool
sunglasses. The similarities between the fight sequences never occurred
to me until I had a director's screening and Luc Besson turned up with Keanu
Reeves as his guest. I watched Keanu watching and suddenly I felt
it.
Sure,
Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to
see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.
What
if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up
other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn
children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers
but that's another matter altogether.
If
you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser
discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right?
You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda
got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real
proud of.
It's
supposed to be kind of amusing and poetic at the same time. And also
just a teeny-tiny bit solemn. When you see her head, it's funny. And
then her line, 'that really was a Hattori Hanzo sword,' that's funny.
But then, the next shot is not funny, when she tips over and Meiko Kaji
is singing about revenge on the soundtrack. So, it's all together.
Funny. Solemn. Beautiful. Gross. All at the same time.
Going
into a videostore and going through the videos, looking at every title
they have, trying to find some old spaghetti western, that's gone.
But
can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To
me they all seem like poseurs.
I
have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The
whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these
other monsters, saving humanity time and again- wouldn't Godzilla become
God? It would be called Living Under the Rule of Godzilla. This is what
society is like when a big fucking green lizard rules your world.
When
I was on "The View" (1997), Barbara Walters was asking me
about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple
of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back,'But this is America.' And I
go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'
When
I was directing ER, I didn't want to stand out. Everyone else is wearing
all that crap. I wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be the odd man out.
I wanted to be inside, not on the outside. When I was directing the ER
thing, the emergency room guys wore the green scrubs. I wore those for a
few days. Then, I wore the blue scrubs, which were the surgeons,' for a
few days. When I wore the nurse's pink scrubs, though, that's when I
became a hero on the set. The nurses didn't think I was going to throw
in with them. I ended the episode, the last two days, wearing the
nurses' scrubs. When I walked on the set all the nurses applauded me.
They were like, 'Oh my God, he's so cool!'
And
that is, of all the revenge movies I've ever seen, that is definitely
the roughest. The roughest revenge movie ever made! There's never been
anything as tough as that movie.
If
you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait
for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
It's
an artistic calling. It's a religion. You shouldn't be doing it as just
a day job, to pay for your pool or pay for your house in Barbados. You
should do it when it's special, when you'd die for the movie, when the
movie is your baby.
I
hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I'm not going to be
this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater
by that time in some small town and I will be the manager - this crazy
old movie guy.
I
will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2', but having said that, I could very well
do other movies with these characters.
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