1994: Quentin Tarantino on his 'intense love' for movies
Director Quentin Tarantino told the 成人快手 that Hollywood executives want to be told what is "good" and what helped him is his cast-iron belief in his own opinion about movies.
Speaking in 1994 during the release of his Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction, Tarantino said: 鈥淲hat you find out fairly quickly in Hollywood is this is a community where hardly anybody trusts their own opinion. People want people to tell them what is good, what to like, what not to like."
The director had spent his formative years working in the Video Archives store in Manhattan Beach, California. While working shifts there he had watched thousand of movies, building up an impressively encyclopedic knowledge of film.
鈥淭he thing about film geeks is they have an intense love for film. An incredible love for film, an incredible passion, they devote a lot of time, they devote a lot of money and they devote a lot of their life to the following of film. But they don鈥檛 really have that much to show for all this devotion, other than a movie poster collection or a still collection," said Tarantino.
鈥淭he one thing that they do have to definitely show for it, is they have their opinion.鈥
Tarantino would spend long hours arguing the merits of different films with co-workers and customers like. Despite not having any traditional training in film-making, the director said that this in-depth knowledge and self belief about his cinematic taste helped him when he got the chance to make his own movies.
鈥淣ow hear I came, alright I鈥檓 a film geek. My opinion is everything, alright. You can all disagree with me, I don鈥檛 care alright. I know I鈥檓 right as far as I鈥檓 concerned and I鈥檒l argue anybody down," he said.
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