
Quentin Tarantino (left, with his Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx) has never bowed to Hollywood convention. In fact, his unorthodox cocktail of cross-genre storytelling, garish bloodshed and overall lack of traditional reverence has made him one of the industry’s most adored — if not feared — filmmakers. “Not one word of social criticism that’s been leveled my way has ever changed one word of any script or any story I tell,” says the Oscar winner (for 1994’s Pulp Fiction).
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