Cinema's greatest crate-digger. He builds new things from beautiful wreckage — spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation, Hong Kong action. His films are love letters to film itself, written in blood.
Were it not for Quentin Tarantino’s unassuming background, his meteoric rise to filmmaking fame would probably not itself have been so exceptional. But as it happened, the story of this high school drop-out turned self-educated movie geek who made good in a big way gave Tarantino a legendary standing almost immediately. Fuelled by a canny skill at self-promotion, a boundless enthusiasm – for his own movies and those by others – and an undeniable talent, Tarantino assumed rock star status and…
What I tried to do with Kill Bill was capture that [era of martial arts filmmaking]. Lau Kar Leung films like Dirty Ho, Heroes of the East, and 36th Chamber of Shaolin are masterpieces.