Quentin Tarantino (Paperback)

• Category:  Books  »  Biography & Autobiography  »  Entertainment & Performing Arts - Movie Directors
• Format: Paperback   Learn more about the Paperback format using Tower WIKI.
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• ISBN: 1578060516
• WAPI (Tower ID): 100299577
• Release Date: September 17, 2004
• Average Customer Review: There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #497386 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
• #17485 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
• #93 in Entertainment & Performing Arts - Movie Directors (See Top 100 Entertainment & Performing Arts - Movie Directors Bestsellers)

Browse more products related to "Quentin Tarantino"

Browse more products related to "Gerald Peary and Quentin Tarantino"

Not since Martin Scorsese with "Mean Streets" in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin Tarantino. In many ways, Tarantino is the paradigmatic 1990s success story: from high school dropout, toiling anonymously in a California video store, taking acting lessons, to world acclaim, with "Pulp Fiction" as the Grand Prix winner at Cannes.

With his first film, "Reservoir Dogs," the then 29-year-old became an inspiration for filmmakers even younger than himself on how to produce stylish, subterranean cinema. (Not that his extra-violent imitators, labeled "Tarantino school," could match the wit of his scripts, his talent with actors, and the vivacity, energy, and originality of his shooting style.)

Tarantino, turning famous, remains the same manic talker who is obsessed with American pop culture and is endlessly enthusiastic about his favorite movies and moviemakers. Informal, gregarious, accessible, he has been a journalist's dream, for his wonderfully expressive, almost stream-of-consciousness chatter.

This collection is the first book of Tarantino interviews to be published. The selections are his most uninhibited, far reaching, and revealing. They demonstrate conclusively that the source of his world-renowned pop-culture dialogue is his own brash, vivid, virtuosic conversation.

"I realized I didn't want to be an actor," he says. "I wanted to be a director. My favorite actors were character actors and I realized they still had to read for parts. I didn't want to be fifty years old and still reading for parts. I wanted some control over my destiny, and it seemed to me that directors did."

Gerald Pearyis a film critic and columnist for the Boston Phoenix, a professor of journalism and communications at Suffolk University, and a lecturer at Boston University. He is also Acting Curator of the
Harvard University Film Archive.

There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review!

• Great Deals on CDs under $9.99

  New Releases, Bestsellers and Classic Albums all for under $10! Great Music for Everyone's Tastes!

• Great Deals on DVDs under $12.99

  New Releases, Bestsellers and Classic DVDs all for under $13! Great Movies, TV and DVD Specials for Everyone's Tastes!

• Great Deals on Books under $14.99

  New Releases, Bestsellers and Classic Books all for under $15! Great Reads for Everyone's Tastes!