It's not that I'm on this big crusade against linear storytelling, but the thing is it's not the only game in town. A novel can do that no problem. Novelist have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's kind of what I'm trying to do.
— Quentin Tarantino Contemporary

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Charlie Rose interview, discussing narrative structure.

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1994

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Philosophical

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