Hey Sebastian,
I like your opinion. Firstly, the journalist who asked him this had seen the film, as it was the Q and A following a presentation of the full film. The journalist also was clear that she was aware the film was not supposed to be about Sharon Tate’s murder, hence why It confuses me why he refused to answer this question. Secondly, about the ten films, I saw a video with him, Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle and several other directors in which he clearly states he has ‘grown tired of it’, which confused Ridley Scott as well. I was not calling him arrogant for this point, though I do think his fame and money has gotten to his head in which he uses the same recurring trait of using dialogue which has one motif to it of film knowledge of that time, the only two of his films in which this wasn’t present was Jackie Brown, with a brief mention of the popularity of the Colt 45 (due to John Woo’s The Killer) and Django Unchained. Of course like yourself Sebastian, I absolutely love his work, but cannot help but be frustrated by his recent behaviour from a man who has influenced several of my own screenplays.