(audience cheering)
Thanks for coming.
Hey thank you.
Yeah, I.
Very nice to have you here.
Hey, it's great to be here.
Yeah? I mean.
Yeah, I'm in the building, so that's totally cool.
I just got to ride the elevator downstairs
'cause I'm rehearsing Saturday Night Live.
I'm hosting this weekend
and I was prepared to be outdoors
'cause last time I was here, we were outside.
We were talking about that earlier.
There was a fire.
We all got kicked out on to the street.
You were a real good sport
and in fact, at the time, remember this?
We went into Brookstone, the Brookstone store.
I remember yeah, yeah
And we got that great massaging chair.
Which never came to my house.
Yes, and everybody I met,
so many people who said, "So how's that chair?"
I go, "They didn't so many chair, man.
They were lying."
Well, we weren't lying.
We're just a real low budget cheap show.
And we looked into the chair
and the chair cost a ton of money.
And then we actually found out
we called the Brookstone people today.
We said Samuel L Jackson's coming back.
He loved that chair
and they said, we'd be more than honored.
If you get to sit in.
To Supply the Brookstone chair
and this time you get to keep the chair.
Get out here.
You get to keep the chair.
Can we get the massaging chair in here right now?
let's see this.
(audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
There you go.
Thank you very much.
Put him on like, ah, high spin.
Here you go. Alright.
Do you know how to work this thing?
Bam, oh, ooh.
(audience laughing)
Hey, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Go ahead. Wait a minute.
It's not plugged in.
That's okay.
Whatever's doing it's good for me.
No, how is it?
You like it?
Yeah man it's happening.
That's a fun.
That's a fine chair it's yours now.
Thank you.
You can take it with you when you go.
Oh man.
So I get this chair if I can get like a box
of those silently tearing condoms from you.
(audience laughing)
He's vibrating.
Oh wait now It's just something else is happening.
What's happening?
Now I just changed the mode.
Let's talk about this movie.
I saw the movie it's.
Did you like it?
Yeah, yeah, you were great in it.
You were fantastic.
Thank you.
(laughing)
Impossible to have any kind of real interview.
No, no, not at all go ahead.
You just keep playing with that.
Going into a leg thing now.
I don't wanna know about the leg thing.
We don't need to know about everything.
Oh, okay.
This is you like the color too?
So what'd you think of Jackie?
Let's just talk about the chair.
Okay. No, "Jackie Brown."
I thought was great.
You were terrific in it.
Thank you.
You were mean in that movie.
You are a mean guy.
(audience cheering)
That was my first time playing an absolute villain.
I've never had that op opportunity
and I was really happy to do that.
I mean, Quentin was really good to find a way
to transfer the character from the Elmore Leonard novel
to the screen that way.
And it was really great being on set with Bob.
You call De Niro Bob?
Yeah.
Yeah I'd like to try that sometime.
But when you're on set that kinder works.
Hey Bob.
Does everyone call him Bob?
No, the PA's calling Mr. De Niro.
Quentin calls him Bob or Bobby
which is kind of interesting.
I never look at him as a Bobby.
Yeah, he's not like a Bobby kinda
hey, I'm Bobby kinda guy.
I see him as a Bob.
So that was Bob De Niro, was Robert Forrester
and we had to make that distinction between Bob and Robert.
So, that worked and then Pam.
What was, I was curious about Quentin
'cause we've had Tarantino on the show
and he seems like a real energetic guy.
What's he like as a director?
Oh well he's Mr. Manic when he is on set.
He's like running around,
he's I in the scene,
he's moving the cameras.
He's talking to the lighting guys.
He's got loud music playing
and once he says action,
we're doing this dialogue.
and it's almost like he's never seen it before
he becomes an audience member.
'Cause he's standing next to the camera.
He doesn't work with a monitor in that way
where he lives in the monitor like a lot of directors
he's standing next to the camera
and he'll just laugh out loud in the middle of a tape.
So the first AD has to stand next to him
to like almost put his hand over his mouth to keep him quiet
so we can finish doing what we're doing
and then you let him go and then he can laugh.
And then when the scene's over,
does he rush out on right on the set?
Oh yeah, he runs right at the,
oh it was great.
Oh that was great, great, great, great,
great, great, great, great.
This movie is gonna be so funny
and so he's like telling us the whole time
how great the movie's gonna be and how great we are,
and he's very encouraging.
Right, do you ever have to say like,
"Hey, shut up,
we're working here."
Of course, always.
You do that?
Yeah, yeah in the middle of a take you now, Quentin,
Quentin.
Just shut your face.
Just take a gun and go Quentin.
(audience laughing)
Did, what do you think is what drives that guy?
What's the key to his personality you think?
I think Quentin really, really loves the movie business
and he always has,
and he has a great respect for what's gone before
and he's trying to find a place
in cinematic history for himself
and his unique vision
has absolutely done that for him.
And he.
He obviously likes you.
I mean, he keeps using you.
He thinks you're fantastic.
I would. He writes well for you too.
I would like to think of myself
as one of the Tarantino players
and that every time he does a film
I'd like to show up and be in it somewhere.
You can work out a deal that way.
No matter what he does
you gotta be in it.
I guess I could, huh?
(audience laughing)
Let's talk about, you got cast
in the new "Star Wars" movie.
Yeah That's exciting.
It was a the bomb.
(audience clapping)
And you're a huge "Star Wars" fan
going back to the first movie right?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was at the first screening
of "Star Wars" on 44th Street.
I was in the very first screening.
I was there with all these other guys.
Everybody was already rolled up.
That was during the days I was using.
I was.
(audience laughing)
I dunno what you're talking about.
I know you don't.
I know you don't you.
You brought fruit rollups with you.
Yeah, of course.
Always nice to have a snack.
Of course, but by the time they went into
warp space on screen,
everybody there was just kind of stuck to their seats like.
(audience cheering)
It was a happening thing.
It was wonderful.
So I have been a fan since then and.
(audience laughing)
It really,
it didn't matter what movie you were seeing that day did it?
Yeah it did, yeah totally.
I love "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
No, no, no, no, no.
The colors, man.
No, no, no, no, no.
It always matters believe me.
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" it's pretty mind blowing.
Have you seen it recently?
But last year somebody asked me
if there was a director that I wanted to work with
and I usually say I just work
with whoever I get a script from da, da, da.
But all of a sudden it struck me,
George Lucas is doing these "Star Wars" movies.
So I started saying, yeah, George Lucas
I'd love to do a George Lucas film,
and he heard about it and actually invited me to the ranch.
Which is like.
He's got this huge ranch, I guess.
Oh, it's the bomb.
It's the bomb.
You get out the freeway at Lucas Valley Road.
That's a sign that things are going well.
That's a sign.
Yeah, exactly
and you go down there, you drive up to this gate, huge.
Up Yoda way.
(audience laughing)
Not quite, but you know,
you get there it's this great ranch.
There's all this stuff there.
There's like three, four restaurants
on the property for the employees.
He has his own fire department.
He has his own fire department?
Yeah. That's disgusting.
(audience laughing)
That's like too much. Really?
It's like having a toy fire engine.
He's got some real stuff there.
He's got a bunch of guys that sit around
and just wait for there to be a fire at his house.
Exactly. And do nothing else.
He gets his money worth, you know,
he sets a few fires.
(audience laughing)
He got something sitting around and.
Use it gets something going.
Yeah, and there's a winery on the property,
a huge screening room.
There's all kinds of stuff there
and his main house is like totally fabulous.
He created this story that they built the house around.
And in the library, he has his own Basilica.
If you can believe it
and that's huge stain glass thing
in the middle of the library.
So it's the nicest house you've ever seen in your life.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(audience laughing)
Who's this guy that used to do all the things
for the Saturday Evening Post, the artist?
Rockwell, Norman Rockwell.
Rockwell, right so I'm standing in this waiting room
waiting to meet him
and I'm going, wow look at this Rockwell poster.
Oh, Ooh.
It's real.
It's a Rockwell.
(audience laughing)
And it was wet.
Now I got my hands on there.
You're not gonna get invited back anytime soon.
Oh yeah well.
All I'll mention this "Jackie Brown"
it's in theaters now and congratulations,
Golden Globe nomination.
Thank you. That's really exciting.
(audience cheering)
And you're hosting Saturday Night Live this Saturday
with Ben Folds Five.
And you get to, we're gonna go to a break
but you can take the chair with you as you go.
Thank you, thank you so much.
We really got to go, Samuel L. Jackson.
Thank you so much.
Will be right back.