Pulp Fiction filmmaker interviewed director Joe Dante while he was making horror-comedy.
The shoot for 1984’sGremlinswas a famously testing and technically difficult one.
“I thought I would start on the interviews and then write the pieces.
The book was calledCinema of the Outrageous.
But I had every intention of writing the book and I started off with interviews.
And so I interviewed a few people back then.
I interviewed John Milius (director ofBig WednesdayandConan the Barbarian).
I interviewed Joe Dante.”
“I interviewed him on the set ofGremlins,” said Tarantino.
“They had me behind a partition because I wasnt supposed to see what a gremlin looked like.
At some point he goes, ‘Alright, you know what?
Im going to wrap this up.
“There was talk about me being on the set ofScarface,” he said.
“Watching [De Palma] work for a little bit and then doing an interview with him.
It never happened.”
