#344 Quentin Tarantino

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David Senra

History, Entrepreneurship, Business, Technology

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🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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What I learned from reading Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders Some questions other subscribers asked SAGE: I need some unique ideas on how to find new customers. What advice do you have for me? What are some strategies that Cornelius Vanderbilt used against his competitors? How did Edwin Land find new employees to hire? Any unusual sources to find talent? What are the most important leadership lessons from history's greatest entrepreneurs? Can you give me more ideas about how to avoid competition from Peter Thiel? Have any of history's greatest founders regretted selling their company? What is the best way to fire a bad employee? How did Andrew Carnegie know what to focus on? Why was Jay Gould so smart? What was the biggest unlock for Henry Ford? Can you give me a summary of Warren Buffetts best ideas? If Charlie Munger had a top 10 rules for life what do you think those rules would be? What did Charlie Munger say about building durable companies that last? Tell me about Cornelius Vanderbilt. How did he make his money? Every subscriber to Founders Notes has access to SAGE right now. Get access here. ---- Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube ---- (9:00) Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. (14:00) On the ride home, even if I didn't have questions, my parents would talk about the movie we had just seen. These are some of my fondest memories. (14:00) He has a comprehensive database of the history of movies in his head. (17:00) The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron by Rebecca Keegan and The Return of James Cameron, Box Office King by Zach Baron (Founders #311) (25:00) Robert Rodriguez interviews Quentin Tarantino in the Director’s Chair (26:00) Like most men who never knew their father, Bill collected father figures. (Kill Bill 2) (27:00) When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, No, I went to films. (29:00) Invest Like the Best #348 Patrick and John Collision (31:00) Tarantino made his own Founders Notes [Comparinig himself and another director] Nor did he keep scrapbooks, make notes, and keep files on index cards of all the movies he saw growing up like I did. (32:00) Napoleon and Modern War by Napoleon and Col. Lanza. (Founders #337) (41:00) On Spielberg and greatness: Steven Spielberg's Jaws is one of the greatest movies ever made, because one of the most talented filmmakers who ever lived, when he was young, got his hands on the right material, knew what he had, and killed himself to deliver the best version of that movie he could. (46:00) I've always approached my cinema with a fearlessness of the eventual outcome. A fearlessness that comes to me naturally. (51:00) The Big Score: Robert Friedland and The Voisey’s Bay Hustle by Jacquie McNish (Founders #131) (51:00) Tarantino's top 8 movies have cost around $400 million to make and made about $1.9 billion in box office sales Pulp Fiction$8 million$213 million Jackie Brown$12 million$74 million Kill Bill 1$30 million$180 million Kill Bill 2$30 million$152 million Inglorious Basterds$70 million$321 million Django Unchained$100 million$426 million The Hateful 8$60 million$156 million Once Upon A Time In Hollywood$90 million$377 million (58:00) What made Kevin Thomas so unique in the world of seventies and eighties film criticism, he seemed like one of the only few practitioners who truly enjoyed their job, and consequently, their life. I loved reading him growing up and practically considered him a friend. ---- Get access to Founders Notes ---- “I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth Be like Gareth. Buy a book: All the books featured on Founders Podcast ---- Founders Notes gives you the ability to tap into the collective knowledge of history's greatest entrepreneurs on demand. Use it to supplement the decisions you make in your work. Get access to Founders Notes here. ---- “I have listened to every episode released and look forward to every episode that comes out. The only criticism I would have is that after each podcast I usually want to buy the book because I am interested so my poor wallet suffers. ” — Gareth Be like Gareth. Buy a book: All the books featured on Founders Podcast

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0:00.0	So who exactly was this Floyd character I was referring to earlier?
0:03.0	His name was Floyd Ray Wilson and he was about 37
0:07.0	and for a year and a half in the late 1970s he lived in my house.
0:12.0	He used to date my mom's best friend Jackie and years earlier
0:15.8	he would visit the apartment that my mom and I shared with her two roommates
0:20.3	Jackie and Lillian and every time he came by it was exciting because I thought Floyd was really cool and I could
0:27.4	talk movies with him and since he was a hip guy who saw a lot of shit he could keep up. I remember when Jackie introduced us, I was 10 years old, and she said,
0:36.5	Quentin, Floyd's who you should talk to about movies. He knows as much as you do. So I, a 10-year-old, started testing this grown-ass man on his knowledge
0:46.5	of movies. Finally I was able to talk to somebody about movies who knew what the fuck I was
0:51.1	talking about. Also during this time I realized the hard way that Floyd was a flaky guy who couldn't be counted on.
0:58.0	On at least two occasions he told me he'd come over next Saturday and take me to the movies.
1:04.0	Oh boy I thought not just talking about movies with Floyd but actually going to the movies at Floyd
1:10.0	But when Saturday came no no Floyd. No call, no excuse, no apology, just no show. He either forgot or he didn't give a shit. And I was so excited too. As the hours passed and I waited and I waited and I waited and it got later and later I finally realized he wasn't coming. I wasn't mad. I was heartbrokenbroken I didn't even think of myself as a kid but even I knew
1:37.2	you didn't do that to a kid but I forgave Floyd and played it cool the next time
1:41.8	he came by and a few visits later he promised to take me out again.
1:46.1	I made sure when he left that he remembered that we had plans and I'd be waiting for him and he said
1:55.4	of course no problem see you next Saturday. And the fucking guy did it to me again.
1:58.1	But this time I wasn't heartbroken.
2:00.6	I felt lousy but not crushed. It was just now I knew who Floyd really was. He was an adult I couldn't count on. This is a theme that's going to reappear over and over again, Quentin's fierce self-belief and fierce independence
2:14.2	because he was surrounded by a bunch of adults
2:15.9	he couldn't count on.
2:17.0	He was an adult I couldn't count on.
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