After working on both segments in Grindhouse, can you comment on the differences between the director’s styles?
MS: They both definitely had a different way of working, but what is so great is how they are so egoless with each other. There is this fantastic collaboration and cross pollination. Robert is must more of a visualist. He is extremely cutting edge in terms of his knowledge of technology. He likes to create at the speed of thought, which is actually something he said to us on set. The minute we would shoot a scene he would already be cutting it together and laying in music. He had a color timing mechanism that would allow us to see what the shots would look like once they made it look like a bad 1970’s print. It was very cutting edge. As an actor he could show us what we had just done and direct us by literally pointing out what we were doing on the monitor. As an actor we had to get over ourselves and any sort of self consciousness pretty quickly, which I enjoyed. Quentin is very old school and he prefers to shoot on film. He doesn’t even have a monitor; he stands next to the camera an
After working on both segments in Grindhouse, can you comment on the differences between the director’s styles?