Quentin Tarantino, lover of blood and gore, has praised violence in cinema and admitted he will not give up making brutal films any time soon. His movies, including Reservoir dogs, Pulp Fiction, the Kill Bill films and Inglourious Basterds, are not for the faint-hearted and Tarantino intends to keep it that way.
Speaking at a Bafta event this week the US Director said: "violence is so good" in cinema.
Quentin Tarantino, lover of blood and gore, has praised violence in cinema and admitted he will not give up making brutal films any time soon. His movies, including Reservoir dogs, Pulp Fiction, the Kill Bill films and Inglourious Basterds, are not for the faint-hearted and Tarantino intends to keep it that way.
Speaking at a Bafta event this week the US director said: "violence is so good" in cinema.
He continued: "If a guy gets shot in the stomach and he's bleeding like a stuck pig then that's what I want to see - not a man with a stomach ache and a little red dot on his belly."
In reference to his graphic films Tarantino likened movie-making to conducting, adding: "I feel like a conductor and the audience's feelings are my instruments. I will be like, 'Laugh, laugh, now be horrified'. When someone does that to me, I've had a good time at the movies."
Not afraid to hold back for his love of blood, Tarantino was also surprisingly honest about how poor he'd been in the early days. In his talk at the Bafta party, as part of Dunhill's A Life In Pictures series, QT told the humble story of how at first he survived on minimum wage – around $10,000 a year – which made the $50,000 he made from Reservoir Dogs seem more like $500,000.
He went on to admit he hired John Travolta as Vincent Vega for Pulp Fiction on a whim, after reading an article by his favourite film critic, Pauline Kael, that called for Travolta to come back, claiming: "movies need him". Luckily for Travolta the violent 1994 film was a box-office hit and revived his flagging career.
Do you like violence in films? Or does QT go too far?