{"id":16,"date":"2007-03-09T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T23:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/tarantinos-loaded-gun\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:41","slug":"tarantinos-loaded-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/tarantinos-loaded-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarantino&#8217;s Loaded Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageframe imgalignright\" style=\"width:320px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tarantino.jpg\" alt=\"tarantino\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"attachment wp-att-322\" \/><\/div>\n<p>From Tarentino&#8217;s article, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/film\/article1454042.ece\">&#8220;I call the shots here,&#8221;<\/a> on Times Online:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve given nobody the authority over me to say I can&#8217;t do anything &#8212; I can do anything I want or can achieve. I don&#8217;t ask permission. I might ask forgiveness, but I won&#8217;t ask permission. There is no &#8220;they&#8221;. &#8230; If you&#8217;re an artist, as opposed to a careerist, and your movie is more important to you than a career in this town, they can never beat you. You have a loaded gun, and you know you&#8217;ve got what it takes to put it in their faces and blow their heads off. It&#8217;s about never taking the gun out. It&#8217;s about never touching the gun, never raising it, never pulling the trigger, never blowing their heads off. It&#8217;s about not going there &#8212; but knowing you can. So, if you have to flash it, it means something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/03\/12968.html\">Kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tarentino&#8217;s article, &#8220;I call the shots here,&#8221; on Times Online: I&#8217;ve given nobody the authority over me to say I can&#8217;t do anything &#8212; I can do anything I want or can achieve. I don&#8217;t ask permission. I might ask forgiveness, but I won&#8217;t ask permission. There is no &#8220;they&#8221;. &#8230; If you&#8217;re an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6340,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}