Quentin Tarantino has strict rule for actors who appear in his movies
Quentin Tarantino opened up about the rules that he has for actors who take on roles in his films.
The director is known for his gritty movies, often exploring edgy or controversial themes, and including large amounts of violence.
He revealed the big rules that he has for actors that work on his movies, and one of them is related to something seemingly basic, but very important - learning lines.
“The one rule that I have is you have to know my dialogue backwards and forwards," he said.
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"When you show up on the set, you need to know my dialogue as if it was your fourth week of a Broadway run after a six-week tryout. Anything else, you are ripping me off. I could fire you and start all over again."
Tarantino went on to describe his management style on set, saying: “I am the captain of the ship, and they have to follow my orders as far as that’s concerned," Tarantino told the Jerusalem Cinematheque in a talk back in 2016, Variety reported.
However, he explained that he wants this to be a two-way street and that he wants to help to get the best out of the cast in his films.
"But when it comes to getting the best out of them in any given scene or performance, then I’m at their disposal," he said. "Because it’s not about getting my way, it’s about making them comfortable and getting the best out of them."
He added: "I’m just very sensitive to them, we have a lot of private talks and, when I have to direct, I’m not just sitting in video village, which is usually in another room, watching a f—ing television."
The director went on to describe how this might typically work on set, saying: "As they’re acting, I’m sitting right next to the camera. There’s no monitors on my set; I’m sitting right by the camera. And I’m looking right at them."
He added: "And when it’s done, they look at me…’What do I think?’
"When I have direction, I walk over to them and I talk about it. I don’t scream at them from across the set. Or scream from another room, ‘Do this… do that!’ I’m talking directly to them and, boom, we go in and do it. It’s very intimate.”
During the talk, the director also said that at the time he had plans to stop directing after putting out 10 film.
“I’m planning on stopping at 10," he said. "So it’ll be two more."
Tarantino has now directed 10 feature films in total, with the last being 2019's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
However, for fans of Tarantino worried that this is now it, he suggested that it may not be impossible that he does another, though he made clear this one would be considered to be separate from the others.
"Even if at 75, if I have this other story to tell, it would still kind of work because that would make those 10," he said. "They would be there and that would be that."
He went on to describe how if he were to make another 'that geriatric one exists completely on its own in the old folks’ home and is never put in the same shelf next to the other 10', with Tarantino explaining that this would be 'so it doesn’t contaminate the other 10.'
Topics: Quentin Tarantino, Film and TV, Celebrity, US News
Kit Roberts