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Quentin Tarantino Admits This Challenged Him Creatively More Than Anything · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Quentin Tarantino is one
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Speaker 1: of the most celebrated screenwriters of a generation, but he's
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Speaker 1: just released his very first novel, three decades into his career,
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Speaker 1: a novella based on his movie Once Upon a Time
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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. It greatly expands the story and characters, and
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Speaker 1: even though Quentin is comfortable behind a keyboard with whatever
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Speaker 1: he writes, he does admit making the transition from screen
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Speaker 1: to book was a challenge. He tells Deadline. Screenplays are
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Speaker 1: really easy for me. I'm not saying I don't work hard.
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Speaker 1: I really work hard, but I know how to do it.
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Speaker 1: Writing a novel, a piece of prose, wasn't necessarily hard,
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't easy. I've never done it before. It
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Speaker 1: was different than what I've been doing before. I've been
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Speaker 1: writing these quasi novels as my screenplays, but a quasi
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Speaker 1: novel is not the same thing as a novel, Quentin
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Speaker 1: says in the interview he still plans to retire from
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Speaker 1: directing after his next film, but hasn't decided exactly what
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Speaker 1: that project will beat. There's novella Once Upon a Time
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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. It's out now. That's direct from Hollywood,