Quentin Tarantino – I’m Shutting Your Butt Down
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[Quentin Tarantino – I’m Shutting Your Butt Down]
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy (April 5, 1970)] Source: LYBIO.net
Congratulations on the movie. Why did you want to make a movie with slavery as a theme? Did that just come with making a Western in that period?
[Quentin Jerome Tarantino (March 27, 1963)]
Uh, god, I’ve always wanted to explore slavery in a film before, but I think actually my real reason to – yeah, I did – I’ve always wanted to explore slavery, but I guess the reason that actually made me put pen to paper was to give black American males a Western hero, give them a cool folkloric hero that could actually be empowering and actually pay back blood for blood.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
And that’s the revenge bit, I mean, is that essential to make me a hero?
[Quentin Tarantino] Source: LYBIO.net
Well, in the case of laying waste to a genocidal white racist class in the institution of slavery. Yes, that would be the reason to do it as opposed to just a historical story, where this happens and this happens, and this happens, and this happens and that happens.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
So you can’t be surprised by the controversy that’s come along with it?
[Quentin Tarantino]
But you can’t, I don’t think you can actually make a movie about slavery in America that, it’s not going to be controversial.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Are you very disappointed by some of the reactions Spike Lee especially?
[Quentin Tarantino]
I couldn’t be happier with the reaction to this movie. It’s been fantastic.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy] Source: LYBIO.net
It’s good publicity, I suppose.
[Quentin Tarantino]
No, no, no, it’s creating a nice debate. Even the people who don’t like the film, all right are actually, I am responsible for people talking about slavery in America in a way that they have not in 30 years.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy] Source: LYBIO.net
But you must care very deeply that this doesn’t become a film that stands out from the rest of your body of work as one that is trashed by more people or anything like that…
[Quentin Tarantino]
It’s not trashed by more people. What you’re saying is not correct; it’s not trashed by more people.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
No, no. I’m not saying it is. I’m saying, are you concerned, I mean…
[Quentin Tarantino] Source: LYBIO.net
No. I’m not talking about the movie right now. You’re talking about – I’m talking about there is actually a dialog going on about slavery right now, that has not been happening at all. It’s a subject people are afraid to talk about, and now because of this movie, people aren’t afraid to talk about it. People are talking about it. Somebody likes the movie, and they write a review on this, I mean especially in the world right now where you actually have the Internet, where actually anybody can actually now speak publicly, which was not the case before. So now somebody actually writes a review for the movie and they like it. And then you read the comment section, and some people who don’t like it, attack them. And say they’re saying, somebody who doesn’t like the movie writes a blog about it, and the people who liked the movie hold them to task in the comment section. That’s an actual, that’s a dialog.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Let me ask you about violence, I mean you said, everyone knows you made violent movies, you like violent movies.
[Quentin Tarantino]
Uh huh
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Why do you like making violent movies?
[Quentin Tarantino] Source: LYBIO.net
I don’t know, it’s just like asking Judd Apatow, “Why do you like making comedies?”
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
You just get a kick out of it or you just enjoy it or…
[Quentin Tarantino]
Well, it’s – I think it’s good cinema. I consider it a good cinema. It’s, you sit there in a movie theatre, when these cathartic violent scenes happen, and I’m talking about the cathartic violence scenes, I’m not talking about, there’s two types of violence in this movie, there is the brutality of the violence in the day put upon the slaves in…
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy] Source: LYBIO.net
The rape…
[Quentin Tarantino]
During that time… No, I don’t think there’s any rape going in the movie, all right, but there is brutality to the slaves. That hasn’t been dealt with in America to the extent that I deal with it. And I’m showing you that there was two holocaust in America, this is one of them. We’ve dealt with the Indian holocaust. They call it, a holocaust of the American Indian in America, but we haven’t been dealing with the holocaustic aspects, the Auschwitzian aspects of the slave trade in America. My movie deals with that. Then there is the cathartic violence of Django paying back blood for blood.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
And that’s what – is that why you think people like watching violent movies? people who were not violent people or twisted people anyway, but why it’s okay to go into a movie and enjoy the violence?
[Quentin Tarantino]
Yeah. Well, it’s a movie, it’s a fantasy, it’s a fantasy, it’s not real life. It’s a fantasy you go in, you watch, you watch a kung fu movie, and one guy takes on a 100 people in a restaurant, that’s fun.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
But why you’re so sure that there’s no link between enjoying movie violence and enjoying real violence?
[Quentin Tarantino]
I don’t know – well, I’m going to tell you why I’m so sure. Do not ask me question like that, I’m not going to – I’m not biting. I refuse your question.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy] Source: LYBIO.net
Why?
[Quentin Tarantino]
Because I refuse your question, I’m not your slave and you’re not my master. You can’t make me dance to your tune.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
I can’t make you answer anything…
[Quentin Tarantino]
I’m not a monkey…
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
I can’t make you answer any thing. I’m asking you interesting questions.
[Quentin Tarantino]
And I’m saying, I refuse.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Okay. But I’m just asking you, why? That’s fine. But you see, Jamie Foxx has said, we can’t turn our back and say the violence in films or anything we do doesn’t have a source of impact…
[Quentin Tarantino]
Okay, then you should talk to Jamie Foxx about that. And I think he is actually here, so you can.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
I’d love to, but I mean, it’s interesting that you have a different view and I’m just trying to explore that.
[Quentin Tarantino]
And I don’t want to, because I’m here to sell my movie. This is a commercial for the movie, making no mistake.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy] Source: LYBIO.net
But you refuse. So, you don’t want to talk about anything serious.
[Quentin Tarantino]
I don’t want to talk about, what you want to talk about. I don’t want to talk about the implications of violence. I’ve been, because the reason I don’t want to talk about it, because I said everything I have to say about it. If anyone cares for what I have to say about it, they can Google me. And they can look for 20 years, what I have to say, but I haven’t changed my opinion one iota.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
No, but you haven’t fleshed it out.
[Quentin Tarantino]
It’s not my job to flesh it out.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
No, it’s not my job to try and ask you too.
[Quentin Tarantino]
And I’m shutting your butt down.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
That’s entirely your role…
[Quentin Tarantino]
This is the commercial for my movie.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
No, you know, but it’s my job to try and expose some serious themes as well.
[Quentin Tarantino] Source: LYBIO.net
I invite you to expose some serious themes, but not the things that I have already been on the record for talking about.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
But violence is such a big part of your, all of your movies, and it’s you know, and it’s an enjoyable part of your movie for so many people. That’s why I’m talking about, because it’s a very sensitive time at the moment. And the Vice President is talking to people in the movie industry today about violence and response that they’re…
[Quentin Tarantino]
And you know where I stand on it.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Which is, that there is no relationship?
[Quentin Tarantino]
Yes.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
But you haven’t said, why you think there’s no relationship.
[Quentin Tarantino]
It’s none of your damn business, what I think about that.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Well, it’s my job to ask you, why you think…
[Quentin Tarantino]
And I’m saying, no. And I’m shutting you down.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
But you have a responsibility as a film maker surely to explain a little bit.
[Quentin Tarantino]
No, I don’t have any responsibility to you to explain anything, I don’t want to.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy] Source: LYBIO.net
Not to me, but to your viewers, to your fans, you know to people who care about, what you actually are doing.
[Quentin Tarantino]
They know where I’m coming from, and I have explained it, and I have explained even what you’re talking about. I’m just not giving it to you.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Why?
[Quentin Tarantino]
Because I don’t want to, because I’ve done it already. I have explained this many times in the last 20 years. I just refuse to repeat myself over and over again, because you want me to, for you, and your show, and your ratings…
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Okay, one last – no, it’s not about our ratings.
[Quentin Tarantino]
No, no, it is about you want me to say it for you, for your show, this show, right here, right now.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Well look, this is a news program, it’s not a film program. So we expose serious themes, that’s the difference.
[Quentin Tarantino]
It’s not going to, yeah. But you want me to do it, what I’ve already done before, and I am refusing.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Fine, that’s all right. Let me also ask, you said in a Playboy interview recently that you thought movie directors didn’t get better as they get older. Are you getting better as you go older or worse?
[Quentin Tarantino]
I think they don’t better when they get old. Well, I think I’m still in the sweet spot, well, I hope, that’s up to everyone to decide. Am I?
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
I enjoy your movies. you probably wouldn’t believe that, but yeah, I mean, I just wonder what you think is sort of, I’ve left. You’ve done several good movies.
[Quentin Tarantino] Source: LYBIO.net
Yeah. I’ll, you know, let me answer your question about that. I just feel, I feel like film making, you know directors are like boxers. They have their time, they have their time. Hopefully, I’m on the right side of my time. All right, but at a certain point, a boxer loses it.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
And it’s all about knowing when?
[Quentin Tarantino]
Yeah. It’s all about knowing when to hang up the gloves, where in my case, I guess the microphone.
[Krishnan Guru-Murthy]
Quentin Tarantino, thank you very much.
[Quentin Tarantino] Source: LYBIO.net
Thank you.
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