- quentin tarantino: cinema speculation (founders #344)
- his is recognizable (10m)
- relate with buffett memos on brand
- he was watching adult movies when he was like 7 or 8
- as he reads biographies he thinks in movies (19m)
- he spent a decade studying movies before his first script (29m)
- magnus carlsen winning the chess trivia
- he had his own database of movies he watched in index cards
- you have to put more reps
- similar with napoleon on reading the works of alexandar the great over and over again (listen to founders #337)
- “how bad do you want it?”
- e.g., 14yo steve jobs and bill hewlett
- sam zell, charlie munger, quentin tarantino—they all practiced what they learned and knew (the key is that the latter very likely preceded the former)revisit
- an obsession >>> a job (37m)
- movie brats were film geeks-nerds
- david found podcast in 2010, but his first episode was back in 2016
- on spielberg’s jaws (1975)
- “film directors do not get better as they get older”
- he hated the play-it-safe-80s movies
- belief comes before ability (45m)
- relate with do it before ready memos and notes
- “approaching my cinema with a fearlessness of the eventual outcome”
- saying no to cutting ear-cutting-off scene in reservoir dogs
- saying to not casting off john travolta from pulp fiction
- a director = an entrepreneur
- a movie = a project = a miniature business
- robert friedland (founders #131)
- lessons:
- if you love your work, that will increase your enjoyment of your life
- importance of knowing your industry than anyone else
- passion and enthusiasm is infectious
- importance of building the historical database that you can then use and that can influence and benefit your work many years into the future
- on kevin thomas (who reviewed movies for the Los Angeles Times) approach vs other movie critics
- and on kevin thomas’ highlighting robert forster leading tarantino to cast him for the main jackie brown role years later