Quentin Tarantino: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) (Paperback)

~ Gerald Peary (Editor) "IT'S JANUARY, 1991, AND Quentin Tarantino, 27, is in his fifth year of trying to become a movie actor or screenwriter..." (more)
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Not since Martin Scorsese in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin Tarantino, whose PULP FICTION won the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix Award. A manic talker, Tarantino obsesses about American pop culture and his favorite movies and movie makers.

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Collected interviews with the controversial filmmaker whose films include Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578060516
• ISBN-13: 978-1578060511
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #264,994 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, January 30, 2004

By	G. C. (Montréal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews

Everybody would like to get inside the head of a genius, get to know how he thinks. Well, this book allows you to do just that. You get a sense of Tarantino's concerns when writing, you learn that the first draft of Pulp Fiction was doing 500 pages.

But since it is all interviews, there are quite a few redundancies. The same questions answered the same way. It might not be the best book to know about Tarantino. In fact it isn't. But it's a good book for anyone who wants to feel the passion of moviemaking, and to catch some clues on what made his movies so delightful. Unfortunatly, the book isn't recent and all interviews topics only include Tarantino's first two movies (Reservoir and Pulp) as well as references to True Romance and Natural Born Killers, which scripts he had sold prior to Reservoir.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars de-ja-vu all over, January 22, 2005

By	F. Veldkamp (Netherlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After a couple of articles written about the same period of Tarantino's carreer (which was very short so far when this book was published) I got a strogn sense of de-ja-vu. It's basically the same questions and answers all over again, and the book only slowly goes forward to the next film or project.

I guess a book like this would be much more interesting if the filmmaker had done a lot more films and the book could do with only 1 or 2 interviews per period. This one was written too soon, alas.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great for all Tarantino lovers!, September 1, 2000

By	[e-mail] (Miami, Fl USA) - See all my reviews

I thought that this was an incredible book. Very in depth and well written. Any single person who really likes Quentin Tarantino should definitely read this book.it points things out that even the most hard-core fans would never figure out.