This is interesting. Cronenberg is making the rounds with “A History of Violence,” and every other interview has a slam against Tarantino, who is, yawn, doing movies about movies not life. Meanwhile, I read an interview with Werner Herzog, where he stated that Tarantino is one of his all-time favorite directors, putting him up there next to D.W. Griffith and Nicholas Ray. Considering these two directors’ types of film, I’d have guessed the other way around, but intriguing nevertheless.
As for the other comments: Spielberg has apparently been friends with QT since “Pulp Fiction” and I believe I read somewhere, when DreamWorks was first formed, that he mentioned that he’d love to have a talent like him working with the company. Bogdanovich wrote a letter for the Jackie Brown DVD, calling him the director of the decade, looking at the past and at the future simultaneously, which is totally true. As for Kaufmann, all I read was a little blurb in an interview about young filmmakers coming up to him and asking what he though of their movies, and he said something like “I say I like Tarantino, or that I like the Coens, and other people may feel left out, but I admire them, too.”
