CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: -but that pain that I'm feeling has got to find its way into the story or else, what am I doing.

CHARLIE ROSE: And translating to writing meaning that whatever you're experiencing as a writer, you've got to put into those characters and you know how to do that.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: Yeah. It's a- well, I mean, that's the thing I think that makes- I mean, that's why when people say, 'Well, you're just making movies about other movies,' I go, 'Well, that's bull.' I mean, to me all my movies-

CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: -are- I mean, I'm using I'm working in a genre, no doubt about it, all right, and I, and I respect the genre, no doubt about it-

CHARLIE ROSE: And what's the genre, in your own definition?

QUENTIN TARANTINO: Well, in, in the ones I'm doing, I'm doing crime films, all right.

CHARLIE ROSE: Okay, crime films.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: And then, like in the case of Reservoir Dogs, that's a subgenre crime film. It's a heist picture.

CHARLIE ROSE: Right.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: A bunch of guys get together and pull a robbery.

CHARLIE ROSE: Right.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: You've seen a bunch-

CHARLIE ROSE: Right, right.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: -kind of movies like that before. And the thing is, though- but I respect the genre and I'm jumping off from it, but to me, all the movies are very personal, all right, when I look at them. And I don't mean like I'm some crook, all right, but the thing about it, though, is like, you know, this group of friends will look at it and be like, 'Oh, Quen, I can't believe you talked about that,' you, you know, you know.

CHARLIE ROSE: Right.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: And this old girlfriend, 'Oh, jeez-'

CHARLIE ROSE: Because they identify with the experience.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: '- Quentin, jeez.'

CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah. Yeah.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: You know, it's like, it's, you know, it's- you should be semi-embarrassed about certain people seeing your movie, I think, when you're finished if you're working on a personal level.

CHARLIE ROSE: Or else the work is not authentic?

QUENTIN TARANTINO: Well, I mean, I don't want to make that blanket a statement, but, but I guess for me, I guess yeah.

CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: Yeah.

CHARLIE ROSE: You're not doing- you're not, you're not extending yourself unless you bring all of that-

QUENTIN TARANTINO: You've got to.

CHARLIE ROSE: -in.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: I mean, you've- basically I mean-

CHARLIE ROSE: Why do you work-

QUENTIN TARANTINO: A writer, a writer- you know, you should have this little voice inside of you saying, 'Tell the truth.'

CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: 'Tell the truth. Tell the truth.' All right?

CHARLIE ROSE: Yeah.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: 'Reveal a few secrets in here.'

CHARLIE ROSE: And the truth is your life experience.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: Exactly. That's the, that's the truth as I know it.

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