Gulfstream: 18 November 2003

Conversation between screenwriters Quentin Tarantino and Brian Helgeland. I think I’m beginning to like Tarantino more than I like his films.

Tarantino: “… that’s all I could do in school, just write new scripts. Eventually, the teacher complained to my mom. And at some point, when my mom was mad at me, she said: ‘Oh, and by the way, this little writing career of yours? It’s over!’ And I thought, This little writing career? This little writing career? You have no vision. I will never buy you the house that Elvis bought his mother. And to this day I have not bought my mother a house. And I never will!”