When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’
Quentin TarantinoRoundtable interviews — the clips are great but the real meat is in the uncensored, hour+ videos. The interviewer is a jerk, the microphone is bad, but the content is priceless.
- Full actresses roundtable
- Full actors roundtable - George Clooney, Christopher Plummer, Gary Oldman, Christoph Waltz, Albert Brooks, and Nick Nolte
- Full actors roundtable - Jesse Eisenberg, James Franco, Mark Ruffalo, Colin Firth, Ryan Gosling, and Robert Duvall
- Full writers roundtable
- Full producers roundtable
- Full directors roundtable
- Clip directors roundtable - Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, Jason Reitman, and Lee Daniels
- Clip writers Aaron Sorkin, Simon Beaufoy, Michael Arndt, John Wells, Todd Phillips, and David Lindsay-Abaire
- More roundtable interviews
LA Times: The Envelope director’s roundtable — Quentin Tarantino, Katherine Bigelow, Lee Daniels, Jason Reitman, and James Cameron
- Full Transcript
- Envelope Directors Roundtable: The challenges of marketing a film
Envelope Directors Roundtable: Sequels and board games vs. original work
Envelope Directors Roundtable: ‘The scene I had to cut’
Envelope Roundtable: ‘The moment I became a director’
DP/30 — Not always the greatest sound or video, but come on! Interviews!
Directors Panel — again, it’s not visually compelling but…come on! Awesome.
Tom Snyder interviews Quentin Tarantino — Watch the director talk about acting, critics, Babe, what’s in the case, The Mr. T board game, and leave with a great cliffhanger.
From The Archives: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart — then of MTV’s The Jon Stewart Show — interviews an excited up-and-coming auteur named Quentin Tarantino about his new movie, Pulp Fiction.
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When I was on The View, 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.’
— Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino vs. Movie Critic (Kill Bill era)
Notable bits:
JAN: Why the need for so much gruesome graphic violence?
TARANTINO: BECAUSE IT’S SO MUCH FUN, JAN! GET IT!
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TARANTINO: I’m having a great time making a terrific movie that people are having fun seeing, maybe not you, but you know what Jan? I DON’T THINK I MADE IT FOR YOU.
Directors on Directing panel at the Santa Barbara film festival
QT on Conan, Jan. 19 2010 - Part 2
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QT on Conan, Jan. 19 2010 - Part 1