you know three years ago our next guest was collecting late dues as a video clerk and now
he is one of the country's most talked-about film directors his latest
effort pulp fiction opens on friday please say hello to quentin tarantino yes siree how you doing
very good very good let's uh let's tell the folks a little about we alluded to that you worked i
guess in a video store someplace yeah i worked in a video store in hermosa beach california
uh called uh video archives is it still there it is still there still doing okay business so
people would come in and rent and buy videotapes from you yeah not buy so much it was more like
a rental store and everything and you would handle every tape that they would take home
pretty much so yes exactly i would like i would charge them for like a non-rewinding you would
touch the tapes i would touch the tapes i would like give that to them i know and then that's why
i quit renting videotapes exactly because the guy's like because there's a guy in the store
touching my touching your tapes and everything well you know what i was thought they'd come in
and everything and what i would do is uh they say well quentin what shall they see today yeah all
right it was like people have been calling it well this is sort of like your film school like well
no it was sort of more like my village voice and i was like you know they had criticism
is there no offense meant here but were you kind of like a little film nerd kind of guy
though totally oh that's i was a film geek i call it there's a big distinction there is that a step
up or down from nerd well it's a step up i don't have like pocket pencil holders or something in my
pocket so the geeks would order the nerds around exactly no i could be i could beat up the nerves i
could beat up the film nerds filmers are the ones that have bad uh bad taste see film geeks you see
we have highly exhausted elevated yourself good for you all right so now it's like uh
only in america from there you ready you read a couple of movies you sell a couple of scripts
and then you're you get to direct your first film which was what which was reservoir dogs yeah
it's a big big angelica crowd here and now and now you've got this second one which i have been
uh hearing about and reading about for months and months and months this uh uh pulp fiction first of
all tell us about the title it refers to like back in the thirties and the first is that what we have
yeah well it's funny because like the whole term pulp fiction has kind of become this antiquated
term that like used to mean something specific and now it's kind of thrown around like film noir or
or b movies where it doesn't really mean what it means anymore but what it used to mean was it was
like pulp fiction was like it was the cheapest paper that they could possibly use and still
print something on and get an image and it was violent and a lot of gore and it was a cops and
yeah gangsters and lurid stories and women getting raped and women you know controlling men and like
you'd buy them for a dime and they'd always have these like really lured covers and stuff and when
i was you know and they were they were known as garbage fiction when you bought these books
you didn't take them and you didn't like you know put them in your library i mean what you did you
read it you were on the way to the work got rid of it you put it in your pocket and set on it all day
and everything but weren't some very well-known american writers responsible for that kind of
thing that's one of the things i actually like about like both like you know uh um art in this
century is a lot of the stuff always kind of comes in through the back door oh sure you know at the
time you know raymond chandler and daschle hammond and david goodies and you know colonel williams
all guys like they worked in this yeah they worked in that and they you know and these books were
not like hell they were they weren't reviewed they were they were just like fodder for the masses but
as time went on it you know it caught up with them you know and people like you know oh yes that's a
famous book and that's a great book now you find them in libraries but not when they first came out
let's do a little scene from your early life as a video clerk i'll be the customer okay
uh is e.t back no but we actually do have last year in miraban right over here
because actually if you're going to really be a customer this is what you
would do you'd come in there and you'd say what's in that's new that's good
also like a scene from my honeymoon thank you very much but you know um now you know the thing
i watched this movie and i'm telling you something this thing is so entertaining
it's so much fun and it's just seamless there's not a false note in the it's like three hours long
and one of the nice nice features of it you have quite a cast of a diverse cast and they all do
wonderful jobs i mean bruce willis does a great job john travolta dances again exactly well see
john revolt's always been one of my favorite actors i've always thought he was like one of
the greatest stars that hollywood's ever produced but oddly enough it's really funny when i wrote
the script i did not know i was going to cast john travolta in it all right but that dance scene
was in the movie yeah and so we got down on the set to do it and everything and you know and
he was all into it now the thing is like the way john would like normally do a dancing was a little
different from like the way i wanted to do it because i had very much both him and uma thurman
they do this like twist contest in the movie one of the things i want i want them to have specific
twists like uma thurman i wanted her twisted beast did you ever see the movie the aristocats
with uh uh jaja gabor well joshua that cat in the aristocats does
this kind of like dance like this you know nose up in the air very like this
you got any more jurassic park
i i just have a feeling this movie is going to go through the roof but boy it couldn't
be a more entertaining piece of work it was nice meeting you thank you very much