it. I actually understand it a little bit now,
more than I did then, when I just thought
it was unfair. I get it now a little bit more:
“Hey, if you’ve got the time to hang out
for three months on somebody’s stupid
fucking movie, you’ve got time to write
another script! So why aren’t you doing it?”
How do you rank the screen Bonds?
DAVID CHIN
Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, then just
a little under him, Roger Moore. And
then everybody else. Connery’s at the top,
but I really, really like Pierce Brosnan.
I didn’t care for the movies that they put
him in, which I always thought was a bit
of a tragedy, because I thought he was
a very legitimate Bond. I’m a huge Roger
Moore fan — I just like Roger Moore a
little better when he’s not playing Bond.
How different would True Romance be if
you had directed it?
SIMON APPLETON
It would have been fairly similar, but with
two big differences. I would have done my
original ending, where Clarence dies. And
I would have had all the comedy and all
the romance, but it would have been
a little rougher. And with it being a little
rougher, we could have earned the more
tear-jerking ending. I mean, with the
fairy-tale popcorn movie that Tony made,
that almost would have been a dirty trick,
killing Clarence. You would have had to
have earned the ending that I wrote, and I
think I would have earned it more. But
Tony made exactly the movie he wanted
to make, and ultimately I think he made
the right choice for the movie he made.Has there ever been a scene or line
of dialogue where you’ve read it back,
thought, “That’s too extreme”?
PETER AITKEN
Yeah, a couple of times. Nothing
I necessarily remember, but every once in a
while, especially when you’re dealing with
profanity and curse words and energetic
invective, you write something and all of
a sudden go, “That sounds too ugly.
That’s uglier than I thought it would be.”What made you pick Liverpool in the UK
for your Death Proof premiere?
SEAN PONZINI
Usually when you do press in England
you go to London, do shit there and then
they send you to Manchester and maybe
Glasgow. But that time I said to them,
“Let me go to Liverpool. I’ve never been.”
I had three days there, just to mix it up. Iactually have an anecdote from that trip
that I’m very, very proud of. I was walking
around and spotted a used-record store. I
always go into them. So I’m in there
looking at a bunch of stuff, and it’s almost
an hour before I even start talking to
anybody. And I’m hearing the two guys
who run the store talking, and they’re
already impressed with me big time, not
because of who I am, but because I’m not
another American asking them about a
bunch of Beatles shit! And when I did ask
them about something, it was a real cool
thing. I’d read in Alex Cox’s Spaghetti
Western book [10,000 Ways to Die: A
Director’s Take on the Spaghetti Western]
that the theme Ringo Starr did for
Blindman [but wasn’t in the end used] is
the B-side of ‘Back Off Boogaloo’. So
I go, “Hey, do you guys have the 45 of
‘Back Off Boogaloo’, with ‘Blindman’ as
the B-side?” Well, that they didn’t mind!
[Laughs] “Fuckin’ hell, yeah!” I mean, that
is really knowing your shit! They dug that!You’re known for your movie soundtracks.
But please settle an argument for me:
what’s the best decade for music?
JO WEBB
Well, that’s kind of not fair, because
everybody will pick their pre-teen years.Above: Thor: Ragnarok
— the Marvel film
Tarantino likes the
most. So far.