QT8: The First Eight

00:32:37,814 --> 00:32:39,607 ..break my heart 818 00:32:39,607 --> 00:32:41,859 and make me sad. 819 00:32:41,859 --> 00:32:44,404 Tell me what did I do wrong. 820 00:32:44,404 --> 00:32:45,989 He's sort of like, if he's in love with you 821 00:32:45,989 --> 00:32:47,198 and you're a big, black, 822 00:32:47,198 --> 00:32:49,033 curvy, gorgeous lady, he's all about big, 823 00:32:49,033 --> 00:32:49,909 black curves. 824 00:32:49,909 --> 00:32:51,411 My baby love... 825 00:32:52,287 --> 00:32:53,496 And if you're a waify, 826 00:32:53,496 --> 00:32:55,790 skinny little white model type and he's in love with you, 827 00:32:55,790 --> 00:32:58,126 he just thinks that's the hottest thing on the planet. 828 00:32:58,126 --> 00:32:59,919 He's just like an appreciator. 829 00:33:01,379 --> 00:33:03,089 He knows everybody. 830 00:33:03,089 --> 00:33:06,217 And when he meets an actor from my era, 831 00:33:06,217 --> 00:33:07,927 the era when he was growin' up, 832 00:33:07,927 --> 00:33:12,473 he amazes them and amazed me by reminding me of this 833 00:33:12,473 --> 00:33:14,058 and that and things and moments 834 00:33:14,058 --> 00:33:16,477 and scenes that he remembers. 835 00:33:16,477 --> 00:33:20,607 He also built a way of sharing his vision with people. 836 00:33:20,607 --> 00:33:22,191 It wasn't storyboards. 837 00:33:22,191 --> 00:33:24,360 It was references. 838 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,155 And so he'd say, 839 00:33:27,155 --> 00:33:29,907 "The warehouse looks like this." 840 00:33:29,907 --> 00:33:32,744 Or, "Look at this film for a reference for 841 00:33:32,744 --> 00:33:34,829 what I'm kind of trying to do here." 842 00:33:34,829 --> 00:33:36,789 When you're in rehearsal with him,... 843 00:33:36,789 --> 00:33:38,916 ...you're discussing those references, 844 00:33:38,916 --> 00:33:42,045 specifically, and he gives you stuff to watch. 845 00:33:42,045 --> 00:33:44,881 It's not something you come to 846 00:33:44,881 --> 00:33:46,716 lightly with him. 847 00:33:46,716 --> 00:33:48,009 It's not a rip-off 848 00:33:48,009 --> 00:33:50,637 that's just crap. 849 00:33:50,637 --> 00:33:52,555 And it's not even an homage. 850 00:33:54,140 --> 00:33:57,143 It's that he's using the tools of cinema to make 851 00:33:57,143 --> 00:33:59,228 more resonant and greater cinema. 852 00:33:59,937 --> 00:34:03,566 Quentin uses filmic vocabulary. 853 00:34:03,566 --> 00:34:05,318 If you look at great art, 854 00:34:05,318 --> 00:34:08,029 that's what musicians do, composers do, 855 00:34:08,029 --> 00:34:09,572 painters do, sculptors do. 856 00:34:09,572 --> 00:34:10,823 'Cause he always, you know, 857 00:34:12,492 --> 00:34:15,953 elevates everything and charges everything. 858 00:34:15,953 --> 00:34:19,457 The detective was the genre that I started with. 859 00:34:19,457 --> 00:34:22,919 Old cars, old clothes, old jokes, fast women, 860 00:34:22,919 --> 00:34:24,295 they all lied to me. 861 00:34:24,295 --> 00:34:26,547 The cynical, but human detective. 862 00:34:26,547 --> 00:34:29,050 Robert Forster as Banyon. 863 00:34:29,050 --> 00:34:30,885 One of the things Quentin does is incur 864 00:34:30,885 --> 00:34:32,428 talent all the time. 865 00:34:32,428 --> 00:34:33,596 I mean a lot of times people will 866 00:34:33,596 --> 00:34:35,723 resurrect old actors and they have them do 867 00:34:35,723 --> 00:34:36,641 what they always did. 868 00:34:36,641 --> 00:34:42,188 What Quentin always does is he pushes them further. 869 00:34:42,188 --> 00:34:43,815 He takes them to a new place. 870 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,443 He gives them a different career. 871 00:34:47,443 --> 00:34:49,654 When my career was at the very bottom, 872 00:34:49,654 --> 00:34:51,030 in walks Quentin. 873 00:34:51,030 --> 00:34:54,075 He said, "I am adapting Rum Punch, 874 00:34:54,075 --> 00:34:57,120 an Elmore Leonard novel, to a movie." 875 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,163 And I said to him, "I don't think they're gonna 876 00:34:59,163 --> 00:35:01,040 let you hire me." 877 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,960 That period in my career, the distributors 878 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,169 didn't want me. 879 00:35:05,169 --> 00:35:07,088 They wanted, you know, somebody with a bigger name. 880 00:35:07,088 --> 00:35:09,799 And he said, and I will never forget him for it, 881 00:35:09,799 --> 00:35:12,927 he said, "I hire anybody I want." 882 00:35:12,927 --> 00:35:15,888 And that is the first moment when I said, 883 00:35:15,888 --> 00:35:19,225 "Wow, Bob, this is a life-changer." 884 00:35:19,225 --> 00:35:21,561 All right, before we start talking about stewardesses, 885 00:35:21,561 --> 00:35:23,354 let's get Beaumont out of the way first. 886 00:35:23,354 --> 00:35:25,523 Uh, you know, I think somebody already