Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Pam Grier on Quentin Tarantino: “I can’t keep up with this man”
nme.comJackie Brown with Quentin Tarantino.The actor reflected on playing the eponymous role in the filmmaker’s 1997 movie, discussing his fast shooting pace and two-week rehearsal process.Grier spoke to Entertainment Weekly about her time on set with Tarantino and Samuel L.
Jackson, explaining that Brown had to speak quickly across dense lines of dialogue.“She has to speak fast with Sam Jackson’s Ordell,” Grier said. “I said, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to speak that fast with Sam Jackson, walking down the steps, not looking at the steps.
I’m going to kill myself!’ I said, ‘Quentin, I’m going to fall. Can we just finish with me lying down there on the steps saying I can’t keep up with this man?’ He talks so fast!”The actor added that she had no regrets about working with the Pulp Fiction filmmaker, saying: “I was ready to work with Quentin and give him what he needed.
He only uses one or two takes. When he works you and you feel it, and you’re in the groove, man, it just flies.”Last year, Samuel L.
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