The Independent runs highlights of a recent talk at the British Library between Tanya Seghatchian and Paul Schrader. [via GreenCine] Here's my favorite exchange.
TS: How do your existential heroes compare with Quentin Tarantino's heroes?PS: The existential hero asks: "Should I exist?" The ironic hero just "exists", in quotes. When everything is deconstructed and referenced, a lot of fun and excitement has come out of it. But in the end, I don't know know nourishing it is. I remember seeing Pulp Fiction and turning to the person next to me and saying: "Everything I've done is now out of date, because this hero is now out of date, this hero of Sartre and Camus and Dostoevsky." But then, if you start going down the road of Pulp Fiction, you're going to get to Kill Bill (laughter). It's going to become less and less nourishing, but that's a fundamental change in the notion of what storytelling is.
Yeah, but what's a little ketosis among friends? Royale with cheese, anyone? Hold the bun, s'il vous plait.
