ceived his big break at the Sundance Film Festival,
opened doors for filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez
(with whom he later collaborated), Christopher
Nolan, and others.
Further Reading
Bernard, Jami.Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His
Movies. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995.
Clarkson, Wensley.Quentin Tarantino: The Man, the
Myths, and His Movies. London: John Blake, 2007.
Peary, Gerald, ed.Quentin Tarantino: Interviews. Jack-
son: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
William Boyle
See also Academy Awards; DVDs; Film in the
United States;Forrest Gump; Independent films; Lit-
erature in the United States; Music; Sundance Film
Festival; Tarantino, Quentin; Travolta, John.
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