Tarantino | Notion

🎞 How long does the editing process take?

Around 3/4 months after shooting the last scene

🍿 Do you lose your vision in that time? Since you're so close to it, isn't it hard to see it fresh, isn't it hard to see it as a person sees it when he watches it for the first time?

Absolutely not! It gets better and better

🧠 How do you write? Do you have a storyboard? Do you just go where creativity takes you?

When I write my scripts I start with the first scene and then just go through the story. Normally when I do a movie I have more or less the story worked out, for example if I'm writing Kill Bill I pretty much know at the end of the movie she's gonna kill Bill, but exactly how she's gonna kill Bill and how we'll feel about it is left open, I need to get to there. What I've learned trough experience is that the mapping of more or less what happens in the story only applies until the middle of the writing process, because by the time you get to the middle of the story you know so much more, you know who those people are, you are those characters and they are you, you're into the story to such a degree that the characters just take it from you, and from that point on, they are writing the story. Of course I am the storyteller, so if I have to steer them in a direction that I think is more interesting or more exciting, obviously I have the power to do that, but I'm trying not to do that, I assume that if they want to do it, they're right, that is truth talking to me, they should know best.

I knew she was gonna kill Bill. Then I figured out what I had to put in the middle.

📝 About the process, how do you do it? Are you alone in a room? Are you in the dark? How do you write?

At the beginning I was pretty much like an amateur mad little writer mostly writing all night long, going to bed in the morning, or, if writing during the day, writing in a restaurant or a bar, ordering a lot of coffee and being there for 3 hours with all my shit laid on the table. It all changed around writing Inglorious Basterds. Since then, I start writing in the morning around 11AM, stop around 4 to 7PM, and then jump into my heated pool, in warm water, and think about what I've just written, how I can make it better, what else could happen this far before the scene's over, and a lot of stuff will come to me, so I get out and take little notes but without actually writing the script, because that will be my work for the next day. It ended up becoming this really enjoyable and lovely way to write.

Jane

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