“Quentin Tarantino took The Opportunity to Publicly thank Late Hollywood Legend Robert Redford for his Immeasurable Contribution to Independent Festiv. Night. Redford, Who Passed Away Sept. 16 at the Age of 89, Founded the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute, WHICH BCEAME The MOST”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Redford, Who Passed Away Sept. 16 at the Age of 89, Founded the Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute, Whokh Became The MOST IMPORTANT AVENEU Deepest and MOST Pervasive Impact on Hollywood.
Tarantino was Present at the Marriott Burbank Accepting the Festival’s Vanguard Award and That Sat Down with The Hollywood Reporter‘S Scott Feinberg for a Career-Spanning Conversation. WHEN The Discussion Hit the Filmmaker’s Early 1990s Career Rise, Tarantino ReminisCed About His Time at Sundance and Its Lasting Impression on HIM. “None of US Independent Filmmakers Wuld be Who Were Without the Sundance Film Institute,“ He Said.
Tarantino Attrated Sundance’s Directors Lab in 1991 While in the Early Stages of Making His BreakthRUGH DEBUT FEATURE, Reservoir dogs. Tarantino Recalled Being in Awe of Just Being at the Institute and at the Filmmaking Giants that Mentenored HIM.
“I’M dealing with terry gilliam, i’m dealing with Volker schlöndorff, i’m dealing with Stanley Donen,“ He Marveled. “Stanley Donen, Volker Schlöndorff and Terry Gilliam Are In My Editing Room As i’m Editing My First Scene on Videocassette!”
And that first night, at a reception, he had a realization.
“A LOT OF MONEY AND A LOT OF POOPLE Are Dedicating Their Time Just for Us, Just To Give US The Chance [to make an independent film]”He said, recalling his thinking.“ They Were Saying ‘You’re Young, and We Might Get on Your Case, We Might Bust Your Balls, But We Seie You.’ ‘ I Just Couldn’t Belide Something Could Be that Artisticly Philanthropic. ”
As the Crowd in the Ballroom ApplAuded His Sentiment, He Added, “So Thank You Very Much, Mr. Redford.”
Tarantino’s Conversation with Feinberg Had the Audence Enrapure and, of Course, Entertoneded, AS HE REGALED The CROWD WITH Tales of the Making of His Movies or Taking De.
Quentin Tarantino at the Burbank Film Festival. Borys kit
The Auteur Talked Of Hown Casting His Classic Pulp fictionStar Bruce Willis Wanted to Play The ROLE OF HITMAN VINCENT, ALTHOUGH HE WANTED The Die Hard Actor to Play The Boxer Butch. The Two Went Back and Forte and Tarantino Pleaded for Willis to Read the Script One More Time, Telling Him The Role, and He HimSELF Reminded Tarantino of Aldo Rays and Another Actor Actor. A Final Call Was Set for 8 Am The Next Day.
“HE GOT ON THE PHONE,” TARANTINO RECALLED, AND SAID, “QUENTIN, The SHORTEST SENTENCE IN THE BYBLE IS ‘Jesus Wept.’ The Shortest Sennce in Hollywood is’ i’m in. ”
THEN THERE WAS The Following Description of His Relationship with Samuel L. Jackson, The Actor Who, As Feinberg Pointed Out, Enjoys a Degree of Leeway WitHe.
“WHEN I’M WRITING DIALOGUE, I’M WRITING MUSIC, I’M WRITING POETRY, I’M WRITING A LITTLE HIP-HOP, AND I’M Writing Stand-Up Comedy. And Life. I’M Really Truming. Explained in a measured tone. “SO WHEN HE SAYS THE DIALOGUE, I Hear the Music. WHEN HE SAYS the DIALOGUE, I Hear Poetry. WHEN HE SAYS the DIALOGUE, I Hear the Comedy, I Hear the Hip-Hop, I Hear The Rhyth.”
Tarantino touched Upon Not Wanting to Be A “FLARBALL” IN EXPLAINING HIS Decision to Adapt the Elmore Leonard Novel That Became Jackie Brown. He Also Descripted His Relationship with Uma Thurman as “I Was Leone, and She Was My Eastwood,” Referring to the Classic Cinematic Cellaboration Between Director Sergeo LEONENOne
HE OPENED UP About Being Hurt WHEN FACED WITH REALLY HIS ONLY BOX OFFICE DISAPPOINTMENT WITH DeathProof and The Robert Rodriguez Double Feature GrindHouse. “IT FELT at the Time Like The Moviegoing Audence Was My Girlfriend and My Girlfriend Broke Up with Me,“ He Said, Before Going on to Say HE SUGHT. Scott and Steven Spielberg.
Tarantino Faced Another Internal Crisis WHEN Planning Django unchained and Wondering if he should shoot on an actual plantation and what kind of trauma he could UPEnd by hiring actors to play Slaves and Slave ONNERS. He Even Considered Shooting in Brazil to Avoid the Sity. Ultimately, It Was Sidney Poitier, Who The Two Had Dinner, Who Said, “IT Sems to Me You Are AFRAID OF YOUR OWN MOVIE. You Need to Get Over,”
WHEN FIENBERG Asked Tarantino if His Much-Talked About and Eventual 10th MOVIE REALLY WILL BE HIS LAST, The FILMMMAKER SAID, “THAT’S The PLAN. We’ll See.”
The Filmmaker Also Said Hew Likely Not Tackle A ONCE-TALKED About Movie Center on Abolitionist John Brown. He Mused What the Term “Tarantino-Esque” Means to Him (“I Just Assume It’s A Crime Story with A Bunch of Wisesses”), and Revealed Hee Thinks that ‘Writer’s Block’.
Among theater at the Gala Who Also Heard Tales of Growing Up in El Segundo Were Tarantino’s Mother Connie Mchugh, Longtime Agent Mike Mike Simpson, Sony Pictures Son of Late Actor and Tarantino Collaborator Michael Madsen.