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Quentin Tarantino Remembers The Exact Moment He Knew He Wanted To Direct · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Quentin Tarantino has become
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Speaker 1: one of the most acclaimed directors of his generation, but
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Speaker 1: he almost picked a different career path in the film
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Speaker 1: business acting. In fact, he was already enrolled in acting
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Speaker 1: classes in Hollywood and committed to the actor's journey when
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Speaker 1: he had a life changing realization, telling a crowd at
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Speaker 1: the Rome Film Festival, I realized that not only do
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Speaker 1: I love movies more than the other kids in the class,
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Speaker 1: but I cared about them, whereas I think they only
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Speaker 1: cared about themselves. And the reason why is that I
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Speaker 1: love movies too much to be an actor. I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to just appear in them. I wanted the movie
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Speaker 1: to be my movie. It took eight years of hard
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Speaker 1: work from that point before Quentin's directing career started to
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Speaker 1: gain traction, but it paid off. Quinton also said his
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Speaker 1: next project might be a comedy, but didn't give too
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Speaker 1: many more details beyond that that's Direct from Hollywood.