Quentin Tarantino on Charlie Rose

I saw Inglourious Basterds over the weekend and, even with my expectations probably set unreasonably high, I came out of the theater sort of blown away. I keep replaying the film's opening scene in the farmhouse on the French countryside over and over in my head...it's one of those scenes that you just know is destined to become a classic when you're watching it for the first time, and I sat there in awe, slack-jawed and transfixed like children of a different generation must've felt when watching The Wizard of Oz for the first time or something.

In that regard, I think that this Tarantino interview from Friday night's Charlie Rose show is destined to be a classic in his personal history, something whose clips will be referred to and played when he dies. He's such an energy machine and almost appears to have snorted a handful of blow just before walking onto the set, but he's so fucking poetic and eloquent when talking about writing in general along with his personal process of developing ideas that the it's almost impossible not to be captivated by him. May he never stop making movies, despite his claim in the interview to do so at 60 because he doesn't want to be an "old director."