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Cannes 2009: "Inglourious Basterds."
Wed, May 20 2009 5:08 AM
Quentin Tarantino's a great writer of dialogue, and no one's more convinced of the fact than Quentin Tarantino. The ratio of talk to action -- not gun fights or explosions, but just people doing stuff -- in "Inglourious Basterds" is, generously, nine to one. Again and again, characters sit down over drinks (whiskey, champagne, milk), and the... Read More...
"I thought, eh, I'll be dead in three years."
Tue, Aug 5 2008 1:27 PM
The world in quotes: "This was like three years ago. And I thought, eh, I'll be dead in three years. So I said OK. And then I didn't die." --Woody Allen on how he ended up directing an opera, at E! Online. "It's the big action ones or the ones with Will Ferrell. In those you howl for two hours and you feel like you get a six-pack [of... Read More...