Quentin Tarantino Serves Up Hitler's Head in Inglourious Basterds

Is it hard to maintain friendships when you work this way?

They understand. But I’m still a younger guy. I haven’t settled down, and these will not necessarily be the friends I have for the next 20 years. I don’t have a family. I’m still allowed to run away with the circus. The way I live my life, I like the yin and yang. Even though I quit school when I was in junior high, I’m an academic at heart, and my study is cinema. I’ve been writing a movie-review book over the years, and I’m not in any hurry to finish it. I started writing the book because it wasn’t enough that I was just seeing movies — they were being lost to the atmosphere. It’s like my whole life, I’m studying for a professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate.

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If we meet again in 17 years’ time, will you have settled down?

We’ll see. There was a time in the early part of this decade that I kind of had baby fever. And it just didn’t work out with a couple of women. And now I don’t have baby fever. Not that I don’t want a baby, but like a writer, I want it to be ... let’s set this up a little bit more.

How do you look back on that 1992 Sundance Film Festival, where Reservoir Dogsfirst screened, and you were part of that group of young Turks?

Since then, and even then, we mythologized that Sundance, with all the directors who came out of it. We called ourselves the class of ’92. The thing about it was, I just assumed all those directors would be around with me for the rest of my career. I just bumped into Allison [Anders] a couple of weeks ago at Astroburger. Alex Rockwell, Tom Kalin. Gregg Araki’s still around and making movies. And even though he wasn’t at Sundance that year, I still consider him part of that group — Nick Gomez [Laws of Gravity]. He’s the one who surprised me the most when he drifted away. I thought for sure he was going to be around for a long time. I thought all of us were going to be around forever.

Click here for J. Hoberman’s review of Inglourious Basterds.

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