-Oh, you know what I wanted to mention here?
Because there's a connection between "Reservoir Dogs"
and "The Golden Girls," involving you.
-Sorta kinda. -Sorta kinda.
I don't know if people knew about this.
What is the connection?
-Okay, the connection was, before I did "Reservoir Dogs,"
I had a very unsuccessful acting career.
However, one of the few jobs I did get --
Is this the camera? This is the camera.
-Yeah. -Yeah, one of the few jobs
I did get -- [ Laughter ]
-I love that Quentin Tarantino just directed our show.
-Yeah! [ Laughter ]
That's the best thing that ever happened to us!
-Camera two! -This is fantastic!
This is best thing to ever happen to us!
So happy. Oh, my God.
That is awesome. -Okay, slow move in.
[ Laughter ] Slow, I mean, really like --
-Slow move in, yeah, come on. -Like, get dramatic.
-Yeah, that's -- all right.
-Uh... [ Laughter ]
What were we talking about? Oh, yeah.
-"Golden Girls." -Okay, yeah, okay.
So, I had a very unsuccessful acting career.
[ Laughter ] However, one of the jobs
I did get, and not because I did a wonderful audition,
but simply because they sent my picture in, and they said,
"He's got it," was for an Elvis impersonator
on "The Golden Girls." [ Laughter ]
-Now, were you into Elvis at the time?
-Oh, yeah! Oh, I was, like -- Well, that's why it worked.
Because I walked around dressed like Elvis in the '80s.
I wore a pompadour all the time. -Really?
-I actually went to a rockabilly place to get my hair cut.
-Yes! -Like, the people that cut
the Stray Cats' hair... -Brian Setzer.
-Yeah, and the people that cut The Blasters' hair,
they cut my [bleep] hair.
Or, they cut my hair. Sorry.
-It's all right, we got you. [ Laughter ]
We can bleep you out, no worries.
Yeah, no problem. -Yeah.
So I literally got from, like, rockabilly professionals,
I got my hair done that way.
And the black shoe polish going on,
and I wore houndstooth coats
and dressed like a hillbilly cat.
-Wow. -And, um --
And so I did this "Golden Girls."
And it's like Sophia's wedding is what it was.
And the thing is, we were like a --
We have a chorus at the end.
It became a two-part "Golden Girls."
So I got paid residuals for both parts.
All right? And it was so popular,
they put it on a "Best of 'The Golden Girls,'"
and I got residuals every time that showed.
So I got paid maybe -- I don't know --
$650 for the episode. -Yeah.
-But by the time the residuals were over, three years later,
I made like $3,000. -Wow!
[ Laughter ]
-And that kept me going during our preproduction time
trying to get "Reservoir Dogs" going.
-So thank "Golden Girls" for "Reservoir Dogs."
I mean, that's what I'm saying. [ Cheers and applause ]
It's a shame we don't have the clip,
because I would love to show --
Oh, wait, we do have it. -Oh!
-Here's Quentin Tarantino as an Elvis impersonator
on "The Golden Girls." Check this out.
-♪ I want you ♪
♪ I love you ♪
♪ With all my heart ♪
-That's what I'm talking about. [ Cheers and applause ]
You got a big laugh. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and by the way, you will notice,
I'm not like the Vegas guy in the long -- in the jumpsuit.
-That's too obvious. -I'm the Sun Records Elvis.
I am absolutely the Sun Record --
And I'm totally doing my --
♪ Got a lot of living to do ♪
♪ Got a lot of loving to do, oh, baby ♪
♪ Baby ♪
Yeah, I'm singing my own song,
regardless of what they're singing.
-I love that.
By the way, happy birthday, Elvis.
Today is his birthday. -Happy birthday, Elvis!
-Today is his birthday. [ Cheers and applause ]
I was showing this DVD earlier,
and I've never seen a box like this.
I almost -- for a second, I thought it was an eight-track.
-Yeah, it does look -- -Right?
-Yeah, I -- Wow, I didn't even --
Until you put it on, I didn't realize we have a black thing.
-Yeah. It's pretty cool.
-A black-ray. -You should be --
-You should have the soundtrack on eight-track.
-I agree.
-The soundtrack is crusher, by the way.
-Thank you very much. -They're always great.
You -- I don't know how you --
How do you pick these songs for your movies?
'Cause they're awesome, and I almost don't --
I go, "Oh, I love that song,"
or, "I've never heard that song."
-Well, you know, part of the thing is, it's like,
when I'm coming up with a film --
See, I have -- I'm lucky.
Where it's like -- I have a whole vinyl room in my house.
Where it's like, it's all done up like a used-record store.
-Wow. -And all broken down
into categories and everything
so you can thumb through everything.
And I've got, like, movie posters
that have to do with movies on the wall.
I have my platinum records up there.
Just saying. -No big deal.
-Just sayin', just sayin'. -Yeah, me too.
-But part of the thing is, though,
when I'm thinking about a new movie,
I go through my record collection,
and I start playing music that could be right for the film.
And then, if I find enough of it,
that actually makes me move to the next step,
the next part of the process.
All right, so, like, it's like, uh --
Like something in the case of something like
"Django Unchained,"
I'm thinking about spaghetti Western music.
And so I'm playing my spaghetti Western soundtracks.
And when I finally find enough of them
that actually sound interesting --
And then I'm playing my '70s soul soundtracks
because that needs -- for something like
"Django Unchained," that needs to fit itself into there.
So when I find a couple of them, I go, "Hey!
I might have a movie here. This could be interesting."
Same thing with "Jackie Brown."
I went, like, just deep diving into '70s soul music
and exploitation soundtracks,
like women-prison movie soundtracks and everything.
And then, by putting those together,
it's like, "Oh, hey, I think I could have a movie."
So it's like -- It's not what the movie's about,
but it's sort of the kind of
the walls of the gingerbread house...
-Yeah. -...to some degree or another.
-Is the movie written by the time you're picking
these songs or -- -No, that's usually, like,
me thinking about doing it. All right?
Like, okay, like, "Oh, this might be
the next thing I sit down and write."
So maybe I've written, like, the first scene.
-Yeah. -I've done it enough
for it to be more than an idea. -Yeah.
-But I haven't committed 100% to "This is what I'm doing next."
And so I've committed enough to writing, like,
maybe the first scene or, like, a fragment of a sequence,
or some dialogue back and forth between a character.
And then I go into the deep dive to figure out the --
figure out the movie sonically.
-Well, you've set the bar for soundtracks
and for films, in general. We love you, buddy.
-Thank you so much, Jimmy. Appreciate it.
That is Quentin Tarantino. -My first time here!
-"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
First time on the show!