I call the shots here

Times Online: Quentin Tarantino. "I’ve given nobody the authority over me to say I can’t do anything — I can do anything I want or can achieve. I don’t ask permission. I might ask forgiveness, but I won’t ask permission. There is no “they”.

Here’s the thing: they can write a mean letter, they can write a mean memo, but these guys don’t have any real fight in them. If you’re an artist, as opposed to a careerist, and your movie is more important to you than a career in this town, they can never beat you.

Directors don’t get better as they get older. They get worse — they get out of touch. There is this weird thing about movie-making where you kind of figure out how to do it. You’re just pulled along by the experience — there’s no way you can predict what’s going to happen. And on the second one, you know a hell of a lot more than you did on the first one, but you’re still being pulled along at least 25%. But when it came to the third one, now I kind of got it, and that was scary to me." Always a fascinating character, Mr. Tarantino. Grindhouse is my most anticipated movie of this spring.