Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Director/screenwriter/actor/producer Quentin Tarantino was perhaps the most distinctive and volatile talent to emerge in American film in the early '90s, who learned his craft first as a video clerk and then as an actor. During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first, True Romance, in 1987. After years of negotiations, he decided to sell the script to the director Tony Scott. During this time, Tarantino wrote the screenplay for Natural Born Killers, and gave the script to his partner, Rand Vossler. Tarantino then with the money from True Romance, he begin pre-production on Reservoir Dogs. Word-of-mouth at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival...read more