"I’m never going to explain that. When you do an artistic flourish like that, to describe it, to explain it, would just … invalidate the whole stroke in the first place. (…)
(Artist Jean-Michel) Basquiat takes the letter L from a hotel room door and sticks it in his painting,” he added. “If he describes why he did it, he might as well not have done it at all."
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Quentin Tarantino on the deliberately misspelled title of his movie “Inglourious Basterds” (during news conference in May ‘09 at the Cannes Film Festival, where Basterds premiered) (via terrycraig)
He was asked this same question at the FAQ I went to and said the same thing… only he said, “To explain it is to piss it away” lol…Of course, your word choice would be different too if you were talking at a Cannes conference than to an LA theater audience.
(via stayforthecredits)
