Quentin Tarantino on Terry Gilliam as Sundance Institute Mentor // SiriusXM // Stars

[@davidgormley4419]

Possibly one of the best examples of non-gatekeeping I’ve ever heard.

[@johngammon963]

The humble Gilliam recognised genius when he met Quentin - it takes one to know one and Gilliam must have been an inspiration.

[@ralphyetmore]

Gilliam is a creative genius who is very honest. He doesn't pretend his talent is an intangible gift. That is so refreshing from the "artists" who fill their work with pointless bullshit, simply to make their work seem greater than it is.

[@FungusMossGnosis]

Joe (Josef von) Sternberg knew all about lighting and camera effects, but was always open about the craft and excited to teach others how he accomplished the tricks. I'm not sure how many directors pretend their gift is intangible or unrepeatable / unteachable. I could name some names (Tarkovsky for one), but I don't really know if that's who they were. And they definitely aren't hacks necessarily.

[@markmarsh27]

ironic that Tarantino is one of those "pointless bullshit" producers ISN'T IT?

[@NateS717]

@@markmarsh27 bingo

[@vaclav_fejt]

@@markmarsh27 In what way?

[@markmarsh27]

@@vaclav_fejt If I had to put my perception of Tarantino in a single statement i would say that most of his dialogue is juvenile tough guy bullshit. ... If you compare the way his characters talk to each other to old Hong Kong kung fu movies from the 70's it starts to seems like that was all he ever watched, there's very little difference in the quality of the themes that drive his writing. ... IMHO

[@Guigley]

An excellent piece of advice for young filmmakers.

[@phillystevesteak6982]

you come from an ancient era of YT. Are you still alive?

[@Guigley]

@@phillystevesteak6982 Alive and well, Master Philly.

[@daemon2470]

The advice is that you just need a lot of money to make a good movie.

[@stephenhogg6154]

This is brilliant advice for everyone and anyone. If we were asked , 'what would you do if there were no time nor financial restraints on you'? Is this not what all of us would do: to dream up a vision - like an ancient Pharo - and get others to carry it out?

[@berkecsrocsi]

This attitude absolutely reflects on both Gilliam's and Tarantino's works, letting everyone expressing themselves makes their creations unique and special 😁👌

[@Kitsua]

I had no idea that Gilliam had such an effect on Tarantino, or even that they'd met. This new knowledge pleases me greatly.

[@tuxguys]

If you're in a collaborative art of any kind, this wisdom, Gilliam channeled through Tarantino, is pure gold. (If you're in a managerial situation of any kind, including the highest reaches of government, ditto.) I suppose all of you reading this know this, but just in case: Before he became a major film director, Terry Gilliam was the American member of Monty Python. He showed up as a physical presence in most sketches, and he was involved with the writing, but his major contributions to each episode of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" were the cut-out animations, including the opening credits.

[@Lasselucidora]

Gilliam IS a Python.

[@archstanton6102]

The pythons let Gilliam go with his creative mind in joining the physical sketches together. He did this through a "flow of consciousness"

[@kentjensen4504]

Now tell us how the Moon is a large rocky sphere that orbits Earth. BTW Gilliam is as much a Python as the other five Pythons.

[@WalterLiddy]

It's interesting that while Tarantino doesn't think much of film school, he did participate in a film workshop. Definitely the right way to go if you can get in, although expensive.

[@500ncb]

my man paying tribute to my MAIN MAN.

[@duffymoony]

"It's all theory until you do it." Never a truer word spoken geez. It's what I've been drumming in to my student s for the last 16 yrs.

[@JonSmith-cx7gr]

"It's all theory until you do it." I have also been drumming this into my students for the last 16 years. I teach at an all girls convent.

[@rodmanhatten]

If ever anyone wanted to know why mentoring is sooo valuable - life-changing even - this is a great example. So simple & obvious a thing not to know, but if you don't know it, it can stop you dead in your tracks.

[@iconoclast137]

that is pretty good advice, and also makes you appreciate how lucky Tarantino was to have found Sally Menke (may she rest in peace)

[@MrPicklerwoof]

"Okay guys, I need you all to share my love of bare feet. If you can get on board with that, I think we can create something special."

[@shaz2761]

Guy -Ok quentin, how many feet do you want in this movie Quentin - yes

[@akaiseigo]

How about an amputated foot or feet like one of Robert Rodriguez's films?

[@larrywexner4163]

*blood guy* "uh i've got 50 gallons of pig blood"

[@stepha5926]

Now Leo's in the pool, & I want a gigantic closeup of his feet - like, just *FILLING the screen!*

[@Vicious-Spiral]

OK, I'm on board then! 😁😁😁

[@TheSeeohhdee]

seeing Q in wu wear just made my day.

[@jimperry4108]

and you know right away if Terry is enjoying your efforts. making movies with him must be one big laugh. helluva time!

[@Stubby1085]

That’s so funny. I’ve loved Terry gilliam since Time Bandits. So unique and just thorough with his details. You feel a Terry Gilliam film. Same with Quentin.

[@mrkeogh]

This is great advice: a director directs, but first you choose who to direct. Choose wisely and articulate clearly.

[@Jacksonrox13]

Seeing Quentin be humble for once in his life is a strange sight to behold.

[@BLARG313]

You must have never heard Tarantino speak before. You’re an idiot if you think he’s never been humble

[@stepha5926]

​@@BLARG313Tarantino fans are such softcock losers.

[@liverightlivehonest5309]

Terry is a genius

[@diegom-a7970]

He is

[@anantambisht4895]

I can confirm this is 1000% true because ij my first or second year as a Filmmaking student I too had visions like taeantino and stylistic choices and all but then i realized that all I need to do is two things to make my vision come on screen 1- know exactly what you want no confusion pls 2 - be really good at talking with people . That's it that's all you need to be a director . Being a screenplay writer is another ballgame and that is tough than being a director

[@letitbeknown8126]

One movie legend praises another👍

[@douglaswarden2584]

Excellent advice for ANY person who is in charge of ANYTHING.

[@wellesradio]

It's definitely a fear that comes from being young, inexperienced and used to doing nearly everything yourself. The title of the job is "director", not painter, not designer, not builder. You direct other people and trust that they know their craft well enough that they can pull it off. A composer or a conductor does not need to know how to play every instrument in an orchestra. Heck, they don't even need to have the chops to be able to play or sing and hit the notes that they write down (although it helps). They just need to spell it out and find the people who can do it.

[@butterflymoon6368]

Not necessarily young but new.

[@anantambisht4895]

I can confirm this is 1000% true because ij my first or second year as a Filmmaking student I too had visions like taeantino and stylistic choices and all but then i realized that all I need to do is two things to make my vision come on screen 1- know exactly what you want no confusion pls 2 - be really good at talking with people . That's it that's all you need to be a director . Being a screenplay writer is another ballgame and that is tough than being a director

[@steveboshakis2751]

DAMN! That's the most COGENT thing he's EVER said! WOW, thanks for posting that.

[@Daniele_Manno]

👏👏and that's why Terry Gilliam is a master

[@BonesofGoldSkateboarding]

terry gilliam is a boss ! bet tarantino thinks the same as me :D

[@LouisEmery]

Communication of vision is applicable in all work, all activities.

[@frankelepartners]

One of Tarantino's clearest statements!

[@shawncdonnelly]

I was at this talk. That's me in the red shirt. Front row. Afterwards I told Quentin I really liked his hoodie, and took it off and handed it to me. He said, "Here, daddy-o, it's yours." Great day.

[@neilgalivan3179]

I love this story. He also tells this on Charlie Rose when talking about Django Unchained.

[@RyanGiggsOBE]

This advice is gold if you have a good enough budget to actually hire people. If you are stating out yourself its kind of pointless seeing as you will be the person having to move and setting up lighting, cameras, monitoring sound etc.

[@robertbloom4424]

Q was fortunate in that he managed to sell a few scripts before tackling directing (which is mostly luck) and thus had a budget, etc. That said, if you are starting out directing films yourself, unless you are shooting natural phenomena with some sort of handheld camera and editing it yourself, you're going to have people helping you - even if it is a few friends you roped into doing it for free. They obviously have some desire to help you. Let them do as much as they can. Your job is then to fill in the gaps and focus on coordinating the project, making the parts harmonize (or dissonate).

[@SpookyJuice]

Robert Davis I agree with most of what you said but Quentin sold zero scripts before his directorial debut. A friend, who had connections to Harvey Keitel, read the script, loved it, passed it onto Harvey who also loved it and was crucial to the film being made.

[@robertbloom4424]

True Romance was sold before Reservoir dogs was funded. Perhaps I was wrong about the money from the script funding the film. Meeting people and making impressions costs money.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

+RyanGiggsOBE You are missing the point - If you can articultae or convey your vision of what you want to people then they will get involved. Gilliam and Welles are/where masters of this. Also if you cannot give jobs to other people its because you are in fear, not love of what you do. You must, must learn to trust people and understand that you are one voice in an orchestra. Even a piano or violin playing the lead part is just one voice. So go and sing, and make it tuneful and the whole world will sing along! :o)

[@popc5245]

+Robert Davis "(which is mostly luck)" No, just no, the guy is great at writing that not luck that hard work.

[@timirish2563]

Holy sh@t! Quentin's gotten exceedingly bright! I have a new respect for him.

[@frankelepartners]

Articulation of a vision puts the story into place in the minds of those specialists who can create it...

[@jameschesterton]

And he just articulated that story in a very engaging way, so he is 100% right.

[@blagger42]

Brillant. So simple

[@iainprendergast8311]

Top blokes the pair of them.

[@markg7834]

Excellent advice for the business world beyond movie-making, also.

[@PunguinYoga]

Is it ever!

[@guillermoparrillasev]

Now I just need the money for hiring all of this

[@foljs5858]

Well, if you're starting out, you don't have a budget for an actual movie production anyway. So you could apply the advice to "hiring" your friends for the best roles to help you, getting like-minded indie movie people who know this or that (lighting, music, camera) to give a hand, etc for your indie short or whatever

[@felyxmillicent6538]

Pure 101 advice.

[@warrenleming9049]

"if you cast well-you don't have to direct" John Huston

[@Debunker246]

thanks for uploading this

[@thestylishweeb4983]

I'm here from /p/ glory to Tarantino and to Kekistan

[@holmesmoss540]

Whenever you see QT in a hoodie you listen. I met him in film skool and hoodie central. Seems like he wears them when he's talking to a peer group.

[@frankmerker630]

If only Terry Gilliam reminded George Lucas of this fact that he had seem to forgotten since 1983 before he set off to create the prequels

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

That's because George Lucas doesn't delegate to other people but believe he can do better by himself.

[@RyanPerrella]

“It’s all theory until you do it.”

[@SmoocknJinx]

awesome advice.

[@devondevon2454]

I know that vision, that very flavor. I think it's a real place

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

That's a great bit of advice.

[@smartyhardy8924]

WU WEAR 👐....."aint what you want baby, it's what you need baby"

[@duffymoony]

QT, you owe a fucking lot to TG, but you took the advice and made it happen, Respect right there, yu caaahnt.

[@danielday713]

Well put! Great advice for the ethical leader.

[@crithon]

this explains the JUMP from Jackie Brown into Kill Bill

[@nimascolari1508]

One thing that I always struggle to understand is how did a first time/rookie director get those actors, that caliber for his first movie.

[@thebathuman]

Harvey Keitel received a copy of the script and loved it. His reputation helped get the film extra funding and, no doubt, attracted more interest in the project in general. Also, Tarantino had sold the screenplay for True Romance (An excellent film) so he wasn't entirely unknown. The key thing, as Gilliam says, is - have a strong vision that you can communicate clearly and know how to hire the right people for the job.

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

Because everyone who read the script thought it was the best script they had ever read, so it quickly spread within a small circle of Hollywood insiders like Harvey Keitel up to Danny DeVito. He was simply that good.

[@RyanPerrella]

Articulate the Vision Have the right people in the room to help you realize it. Simple enough Let’s Do iT!

[@mikehoyle3852]

the positive side of the corporate : film making is for team workers, not loners; How to articulate your vision, know what your vision is, and hire really talented people to do the rest.

[@Swisha85]

powerful quentin tarantino

[@DerAykac]

"Very lucky" doesn´t even come close. He knows that, you can hear xD

[@nicknickb]

wu tang hoodie. fucking legend.

[@LurkingCrassZero]

Wu tang hoody, grandpa pants and shoes. lol

[@TheLiveMusicGroup]

right on bud

[@anantambisht4895]

I like tarantino chin

[@ujustgotdunkedon4523]

What a guy

[@lddevo88]

Awesome advise!

[@FormerlyMatthewC]

"Shamanistic" - for a second there I could have sworn he said "Shamalananistic"

[@meowco69]

A very intelligent guy who you can see has a passion for film and breaks it down to what the art is. Too bad I'm not such a fan of his films.

[@ted__ryan]

Give a chance. Focus on the dialog and story

[@Aalborg42]

Jackie Brown

[@francescocinzano3564]

that was exactly the way ppl like stanley kubrick worked

[@plisskin83]

He has to be the oldest white guy to sport Wu Wear.

[@5433DD]

Meal Wheels35 The guy commented that 6 years ago 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mealwheels3562]

BLANKAR so?

[@5433DD]

Meal Wheels35 Jokes how u replied to him

[@MrNinjacrab]

Some sound advice thanks Quentin!

[@bellhopwalrus2517]

"How do you capture your vision?" Point a camera at it.

[@atticstattic]

MRI

[@Whoa802]

Just like John Ford said.

[@tinotrivino]

totally true.. but often we dont have a lot of money and must do a lot of things on our own... but its true what Gilliam said! But that is what you learned in the Filmschool anyway lol, each departement has his own speciallity lol Like Truffaut said, the filmdirector just say YES or NO :D

[@thebathuman]

One of the KEY important aspects of any collaborative arts school/course is making contacts. The same goes for working on other people's projects, etc - making reliable and enthusiastic contacts you can call upon for projects when the time is right. After twenty years of making theatre I have a solid group of people I work with on a regular basis - it's very nice to trust someone with a job you know they will absolutely nail.

[@BrainwashCompany]

Quentin Tarantino Looks like a bad uncle but he is a genius

[@andreasphalt]

he's maybe a bad Uncle too ...

[@marsoblivi0n945]

Bad uncles are the best people.

[@stepha5926]

"genius" 🙄🤣🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕😞

[@billlonee9470]

Gilliam was right and obviously, QT listened. That's why everyone thinks his over-bloated tripe is so good. It's because everything looks good.

[@sonijam]

Sometimes your people don't quite hit the mark, but I'll bet other times the film, or even just one scene, it turns out even better than the original plan.

[@alexouin3]

Great stuff.

[@ivaerak]

Wu Wear

[@MythopoeicNavid]

1:57 - that subtle laughter from the audience? That's proof that all of this talk about visionary minds is just one rich douche getting people to do his work for him. I think Gilliam, if not Tarantino, understood that fairly well. And what Tarantino means by 'practical' he means 'exploitative.' Any one can come up with a good vision or idea, but having the means to realize it? To toil away hour after hour on both the exciting and the drudge work? That's what an artist does. And that isn't me attacking Tarantino -- I'm sure he does a lot of his work by himself (like at least the screen play -- he writes his own screenplays).

[@princejellyfish3945]

Exploitive? You mean hiring people to do a job? He's a the screenwriter and director, he's not supposed to be sewing together costumes or building sets. It's his job as a director to have other people realize that vision so he can be focused on the shots he's getting and the performance from the actors

[@MilesBellas]

it is a knowing laugh...the audience in that room sees themselves as those people

[@gringochucha]

You sound like people who don't understand what an orchestra conductor does. They think he's just waving his hands while the musicians do "all the hard work".

[@romanramirez7847]

I know no one thinks this but I’ve always thought Quentin looks a bit like Terry Gilliam.

[@chriscohea2817]

Quentin Tarantino is so rich he does not care how he dresses or looks.

[@inside452]

these are words i needed to hear

[@zciliyafilms5508]

That is phenomenal advice. He's exactly right.

[@PotatoJonson]

Unless you’re like all independent filmmakers who have to also move the lights and design the sets.

[@butterflymoon6368]

Woah I didn't know he did that. I thought he was completely indie.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Yeah, he was originally going to use the 30k he made from selling the Natural Born Killers script to shoot RD guerrilla-style on the streets of LA in 16mm black and white, but then Lawrence Bender gave the script to someone who happened to know Harvey Keitel, and Keitel liked it so much that he signed on as producer and got the budget raised to 1.5m. He also helped them fund casting sessions where they found Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen. I guess while that much was being invested in it, Tarantino felt he could use some polishing as a newbie director. You can watch the original demo tapes he filmed at the Sundance Lab on youtube (kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWjVk3Swgb-In9k), and it's really interesting when you compare it to the final product. QT's vision is there, but it's all over the fucking place really- the camera work in particular. It's a very good job he realised he needed some help, because if he had gone with his original idea there is no way RD would have been as successful as it was. I had no idea one of his mentors was Terry Gilliam, however- that's pretty cool.

[@locuspoti]

Where can I find the full interview? I'm kinda clueless where to search!?

[@Ochenter]

Where is the whole intervention please ? Thanks.

[@vincecallagher7636]

And, you have to have the dough-ray-me.

[@zerpblerd5966]

yepyep!

[@lifeisactuallyveryboring.7771]

Probably explains why Kubrick kept re-writing the shining

[@temporaryuseraccount0012]

2:35 = " ! ! ! *THEY* ! ! ! "

[@invernessfan3017]

Interesting.

[@omarab837]

It's so strange seeing videos say "uploaded 10 years ago". Dman I'm getting old.

[@Io-Io-Io]

...'with a Little help from my friends' yeah

[@JOXCY]

Unfortunately this method requires a shit load of money. Better advice would be to start small and make a short project and go all the way with it, familiarise yourself with the process, and then move on to something bigger.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

Gilliam is the truest visionary film maker since the generation of Welles and Bergman. Without the ego and the insanity.

[@Swisha85]

DW BRO QUENCY IS DIRECTING THE NEXT FAST AND FURIOS IS THAT RELEVENT ENUF FOR U LOLE

[@afterthefox]

taratino looking more and more like liberace...

[@adinocc2042]

"Delegation of power is the sign of true genius" Me: 3/5/2021

[@CarlosOlivoIQ]

Ganz genau Quentin!!! Danke

[@NextChapterRapper]

Baron Munchausen goated.

[@mackychloe]

'Transmutation'

[@acidfilth2007]

Quentin starting to look like an old japanese man. He should cameo in a samurai film of his own as a pissy shogun or something

[@akaiseigo]

He set to appear in Battle Royale 2 as POTUS but didn't come out on fruition due to scheduling conflicts.