“I knew that Sterling knew that I knew that Sterling knew that I knew that Sterling knew that I understood him.” 

“I was recently acting in Oceans 11 and at about 1:20 in the morning Steven Soderbergh came up to me and said ‘Now when you put the ink on your face was that an improvisation?’ And I thought, what are you talking about?” 
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slightly sluggish parable of doomed love where Truffaut wrings out most of the suspense to play with the genre wrapper itself: a love hate love letter to Hawks’s Hollywood and Hitchcock’s blonde (Deneuve as Novak, Hedren, Leigh, etc.) which the New Hollywood clearly intercepts because it almost feels and moves like Altman — right down to the Olive Oyl joke and the final shot forecasting the same snowy fatalism of McCabe and Mrs. Miller — if Tarantino thinks of himself…