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“packaged”: Cassian Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“Hold on a moment here” and following: Avary, AI, 5/2/02.
“The things that”: Tarantino, AI, 7/11/03.
“It was a big, big thing”: Tarantino, AI, 4/9/94.
“Quentin was born”: Rockwell, AI, nd.
“I don’t want this fuckin’ asshole” and following: Tarantino, AI, 12/07/02.
“In the first weekend”: Foley, AI, 6/21/01.
“We were blown away”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“Okay, Best Screenplay” and following: Tarantino, AI, 6/10/94.
“Believe me, they’re going” and following: Rockwell, AI, 7/13/95.
“I was really scared”: Anders, AI, 6/14/94.
“Life instantly changed” and following: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“Sony spent $200,000”: Linklater, AI, 3/12/01.
“We wound up shouldering” and following: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01; Frontline documentary, 5/01.
“He came waddling up” and following: Bowles, AI, 3/4/00.
“It’s like the guy who wants”: Confidential source.
“We were asked to bring”: Granata, AI, 12/16/02.
“Gill would argue” and following: Spikes, AI, 7/23/01.
“Okay, if you’re so good”: Confidential source.
“When people made snow jokes”: Tusk, AI, 8/16/00.
“Now look”: Confidential source.
“a terrier on speed”: Confidential source.
“Scott was Harvey’s attack dog.”: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“Tell ’im to go fuck himself” and following: Confidential source.
“Whaddid I do that for?”: Confidential source.
“If there was a totally unpleasant”: Bowles, AI, 6/7/00.
“I’m a big fan”: Lechner, AI, 2/8/00.
“There was a lot”: Confidential source.
“Whaddya think a’that” and following: Confidential source.
“Scott, where ya goin’?”: Confidential source.
“When I started there”: Burkin, AI, 4/29/02.
“Harve, don’t buy it.” and following: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“In Europe, we were very curious” and following: Bertolucci, AI, 5/26/03.
“You knew what the result”: Thomas, AI, 4/11/02.
“They had recruited a bizarre”: Urman, AI, 10/31/01.
“Previews are a terrible”: Bertolucci, AI, 5/26/03.
“I couldn’t get Bernardo”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 11/18/02.
“It’s another one”: Bertolucci, AI, 5/26/03.
“Oh, by the way” and following: Urman, AI, 10/31/01.
“Why did you”: Jeremy Thomas, AI, 4/11/02.
“Bernardo just flipped out”: Urman, AI, 10/31/01.
“I found a bar” and following: Bertolucci, AI, 5/26/03.
“I dropped Bernardo”: Thomas, AI, 4/11/02.
“He’s a snob.” and following: Bertolucci, AI, 5/26/03.
CHAPTER 6: THE HOUSE THAT QUENTIN BUILT
Epigraph: Hirschberg, “The Mad Passion of Harvey and Bob.”
“The problem we had”: Malin, AI, 8/6/02.
“That’s too strong”: Schmidt, AI, 3/27/01.
“Whaddya telling us?” and following: Ray, AI, 3/2/01.
“We’re going to do” and following: Jeff Lipsky, AI, 10/4/99.
“Gary’s an arrogant”: Ray, AI, 3/2/01.
“Allen & Co., I understood them”: Jeff Lipsky, AI, 10/4/99.
“Stupid, petty things” and following: Ray, AI, 3/2/01.
“betrayed me”: Jeff Lipsky, AI, 10/4/99.
“I’ve regretted it ever since”: Ray, AI, 3/2/01.
“I picked up where Marty”: Foley, AI, 6/21/01.
“Nobody saw that coming”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“Bob and Harvey had never had a $100”: Foley, AI, 6/21/01.
“I never had”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/3/02.
“Quentin loved Harvey”: Hess, AI, 10/23/98.
“If I put myself”: Tarantino, AI, 4/4/94.
“Harvey saw him as this guy” and following: Hess, AI, 10/23/98.
“He’s the only”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 7/18/02.
“Quentin became the face”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“He had his fingers”: Hess, AI, 10/23/98.
“Hey, man, if I don’t find”: Confidential source.
“There’s just been so much hype”: Lechner, AI, 2/8/00.
“There’s always been imitation”: Lechner, AI, 2/8/00.
“Genre films are a great”: Chris Gore, “Soderbergh Unleashed,” Film Threat, 1–5, 2/18/01–6/17/02.
“I’m always being told” and following: Hawke, AI, 10/28/02.
“That’s when they said”: Hess, AI, 10/23/98.
“The Miramaxization”: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“If your little movie”: Schamus, AI, 7/2/02.
“The agencies and managers”: Robert Newman, AI, 6/13/00.
“The biggest thing was when” and following: Anders, redacted from Frontline documentary, 5/01.
“The major guys are shooting”: Gilmore, Frontline documentary, 5/01.
“Miramax at that time felt”: Matthew Cohen, AI, 12/10/01.
“Bob yelled at me”: Katzenberg, AI, 5/23/02.
“Bob really got in there”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“floating high gross numbers”: Bill Mechanic, AI, 5/2/01.
“You gotta do it” and following: Mechanic, AI, 5/2/01.
“The big cost in the movie business”: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“To this day”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“You know, you probably” and following: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“If I heard that” and following: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“You had this efficiency machine”: Foley, AI, 6/21/01.
“They’re enough alike”: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“Miramax was set up to be”: McGurk, AI, 5/1/01.
“Miramax acted like Disney” and following: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“People who did stuff for them”: Moore, AI, 5/1/00.
“Miramax had no brand identity”: Confidential source.
“I thought it was”: Confidential source.
“They got pissed off”: Moore, AI, 5/1/00.
“They spent the entire time”: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“Go ahead and walk”: Confidential source.
“They drove McGurk insane”: Confidential source.
“There’s this really cool kid”: Vachon, AI, nd.
“Their idea of safe sex”: Marc Fisher, “ ‘Kids’: The Darker Side of Disney,” Washington Post, 8/6/95.
“My friend said” and following: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“Miramax was gonna”: Larry Clark, AI, 10/22/03.
“If it was up to me” and following: Vachon, AI, nd.
“She was used”: Clark, AI, 10/22/03.
“Wow, congratulations”: Confidential source.
“Harvey the acquisitions guy”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“Ed Burns and The Brothers McMullen”: Kevin Smith, AI, 6/6/02.
“It was a dysfunctional place”: Schulman, AI, 4/25/02.
“Bob sees things”: Van Wagenen, AI, 10/22/03.
“I like the thinking” and following: Confidential source.
“He’ll disappear for six”: Confidential source.
“No matter who”: Van Wagenen, AI, 10/22/03.
“Bob is almost genetically”: Confidential source.
“Fuck you!” and following: Avary, AI, 5/2/02.
“I’m always going up against”: Bernard, Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies, 240.
“And I really have to take a pee”: Bernard, Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies, 243.
“My whole thing was”: Tarantino, AI, 7/11/03.
“To sit on a movie set”: Collins, “The Funk of Steven Soderbergh.”
“I was bored”: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“The problem with my marriage” and following: Collins, “The Funk of Steven Soderbergh.”
“People kept thinking” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“Do you know any” and following: Linklater, AI, 3/12/01.
“his eclecticism” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“We fought like cats and dogs”: Collins, “The Funk of Steven Soderbergh.”
“What was that about?”: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“I was so wrapped up”: Lim, “Having Your Way with Hollywood.”
“I guess I wanted” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“It was like”: Russell, AI, 8/30/01.
“You’re going to go meet Harvey”: Russell, AI, 12/08/02.
“I went to this part”: Russell, AI, 8/30/01.
“To me that incest material”: Russell, AI, 10/25/02.
“After we made the deal” and following: Russell, AI, 8/30/01.
“The thing that sickens me”: Russell, AI, 10/25/02.
“Harvey hungered to make movies”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“viciously anti-Catholic”: Schweizer and Schweizer, Disney: The Mouse Betrayed, 212.
“It was overwhelming”: Linde, AI, 11/19/99.
“Cardinal O’Connor lit the fuse”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 7/18/02.
“Harvey perceived no”: Linde, AI, 11/16/99.
“I just want to tell you” and following: McGurk, AI, 8/27/01.
“Priest was a turning point”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“He was doing it”: Confidential source.
“We had a couple of years”: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“He said, ‘You know’ ”: Israel, AI, 5/1/01.
“If Harvey believed in a film”: Hart, AI, 9/17/02.
“First we pulled quotes”: Peter Kindlon, AI, 10/4/02.
“It was too”: Clark, AI, 10/22/03.
“seems voyeuristic and exploitative” and following: Richard Brooks, “Disney Caught in ‘Child Porn’ Film Row,” The Guardian, May 28, 1995.
“nightmare of depravity”: Bob Dole, speech delivered 5/31/95.
“I saw the movie”: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“Kids was a hot potato”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“It set a bad precedent”: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“I just love movies”: Mark Jolly, “Growing Up Fast: Kids,” The Times (London), 7/30/95.
“Harvey and Bob did” and following: Clark, AI, 10/22/03.
“it grossed $7 million”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 11/11/03.
“Kids was a Miramax”: Vachon, AI, nd.
“While everyone thought”: Tusk, AI, 2/3/00.
“Bob and Harvey were moving”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“They were offered”: Clark, AI, 10/22/03.
CHAPTER 7: PUMPING UP THE VOLUME
Epigraph: Bernard Weinraub, “Mavericks Adapting to Power of the Studios,” New York Times, 6/24/96.
“I always wanted”: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03.
“I drove him over”: Rodriguez, AI, 6/14/03.
“It was getting hard”: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03.
“Basically I’d been paying my dues” and following: Biskind, “Four Rooms,” 12/95.
“It was really exciting” and following: Anders, AI, 11/3/98.
“I was the originator” and following: Biskind “Four Rooms,” 12/95.
“It was very personal” and following: Anders, AI, nd.
“Well, okay, I could cut”: Biskind, “Four Rooms,” 12/95.
“Who’s going to tell Quentin”: Ibid.
“My room ran twenty minutes”: Anders, AI, 6/13/00.
“You’re going to be an insignificant”: Bernard, Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies, 230.
“You know what the problem is”: Anders, AI, 11/17/98.
“The truth is, I don’t think” and following: Anders, AI, 6/13/00.
“My dentist went”: Rockwell, AI, 6/11/03.
“Quentin decided he was going” and following: Anders, AI, 6/13/00.
“This is an interesting” and following: Anders, AI, 11/3/98.
“Quentin was mortified”: Coen, AI, 10/15/03.
“Bob Weinstein called”: Anders, AI, 6/13/00.
“He can’t be in a competitive”: Safford, AI, 9/29/98.
“A week before its premiere”: Payne, AI, 2/21/00.
“Who the hell is responsible” and following: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“He wanted a happier ending” and following: Payne, AI, 2/21/00.
“Cary, they’re gonna know”: Confidential source.
“Even agents were crying” and following: Jon Taplin, AI, 2/2/99.
“Did you like Shine?”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“The eagle has landed”: Israel, AI, 5/1/01.
“Fine Line got Shine!” and following: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“About a half hour”: Carlos Goodman, AI, 10/2/98.
“You fuck!”: Taplin, AI, 2/2/99.
“I didn’t physically”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“He was about”: Deborah Newmyer, AI, 4/20/99.
“For once in your life”: Lichter, AI, 10/2/98; Deborah Newmyer, AI, 4/20/99.
“Fuck you, bitch!”: Taplin, AI, 2/2/99.
“You don’t talk”: Goodman, AI, 10/2/98.
“You’re gonna need more lawyers” and following: Taplin, AI, 2/2/99.
“I am too big”: Susan Glatzer, AI, 4/26/00.
“I ruined my reputation”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“We agreed on terms”: Safford, AI, 9/29/98.
“So Tony, you had” and following: Tusk, AI, 2/3/00; Confidential source.
“Oh no, Scott”: Tusk, AI, 2/3/00.
“Dr Pepper commercial”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“Nineteen ninety-six, the Shine year”: Gilmore, AI, 3/9/01.
“Being rejected by Sundance”: Tenenbaum, AI, 10/2/99.
“a festival that’s attached”: Kenneth Turan, Sundance to Sarajevo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 33.
“It’s no secret Sundance”: David Geffner, “Surviving Park City: Do the Craziest 10 Days in January Still Matter?”, Moviemaker, 2001.
“I responded to the whole”: Soderbergh, AI, 4/22/99.
“got fucked again”: Tenenbaum, AI, 10/2/99.
“I got tired of bringing”: Safford, AI, 9/29/98.
“I’ve heard you’ve taken” and following: Safford, AI, 12/04/02.
“I acted badly again”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“They dumped my files”: Safford, AI, 12/04/02.
“But Redford wanted creative control”: Jonathan Sehring, AI, 7/24/00.
“They were clueless”: Confidential source.
“A huge element”: Confidential source.
“It was obviously great material”: Pierson, AI, 11/26/01.
“Be funny”: Confidential source.
“that this is not the kind” and following: Pierson, AI, 11/26/01.
“Larry, do you want me”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“Okay, now it’s your turn” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“I’m a half an hour into this”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“Whaddya want for it?” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“It was stupid”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“Billy made it clear to me” and following: Larry Meistrich, AI, 5/13/03.
“We had one of those” and following: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“Billy Bob is a very ornery”: Bowles, AI, 3/24/00.
“I’m a big, fat, hairy Jew”: Confidential source.
“Weinstein said” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“Ah’m going to stick a fork”: Confidential source and Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“The fights were not happy hugs” and following: Meistrich, AI, 5/13/03.
“They needed Billy”: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“pay people”: Confidential source.
“Harvey wants it” and following: Mechanic, AI, 5/2/01.
“I can blame almost every one”: Johanna Schneller, “Us interview: Billy Bob Thornton,” 8/98.
“We were raised”: Matthew Gilbert, “Southern Discomfort,” Boston Globe, 2/7/97.
“Silly Slob”: Richard Corliss, “Billy Bob . . . Olivier?,” Time, 2/10/97.
“I don’t know why I’m so unhappy”: Schneller, “Us interview: Billy Bob Thornton”; Mark Jacobson, “Citizen Billy Bob,” Esquire, 4/97.
“I was full of self-loathing”: Patrick Goldstein, “A Story That Hits Close to Down Home,” Los Angeles Times, 11/24/96.
“We worked our hearts out”: Jacobson, “Citizen Billy Bob.”
“Which intrigued the hell” and following: Ray, AI, 3/2/01.
“They send you stuff to look at”: Payne, AI, 2/21/00.
“I do think Harvey made promises”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“I was shocked because” and following: Jim Taylor, AI, 10/18/01.
“I didn’t get one single”: Payne, AI, 2/21/00.
“You threw that spot”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“Saul, like all of us”: Thomas, AI, 4/11/02.
“My friends are my friends” and following: Anthony Minghella, AI, 10/30/01.
“I called everybody”: Pollack, AI, 6/10/02.
“Miramax had been buzzing around” and following: Elwes, AI, 10/26/00.
“That’s fantastic, I know”: Peter Jackson, AI, 11/12/03.
“Saul was in love”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“Miramax was in a state” and following: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“I gave Peter”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 8/9/02.
“All of a sudden” and following: Mechanic, AI, 5/2/01.
“I know that Demi’s name”: Minghella, AI, 10/30/01.
“Anthony would smile”: Mechanic, AI, 5/2/01.
CHAPTER 8: SWIMMING WITH SHARKS
Epigraph: John Pierson, AI, 1/13/02.
“Don’t worry, it’s not horror” and following: Confidential source.
“Bob felt strongly”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“I didn’t want it” and following: Bob Weinstein, AI, 11/5/03.
“He has peaks and valleys”: B. J. Rack, AI, 12/1/99.
“I’m scared” and following: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“They treated him very badly”: Rack, AI, 12/1/99.
“They were trying”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“I thought the mask”: Bob Weinstein, AI, 11/5/03.
“We have reached an impasse” and following: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
