Quentin Tarantino, the auteur famous for making movies with high body counts and bloodshed, opens up to the November issue of Playboy about glorifying violence in movies.
In particular, the director of “Kill Bill” and “Pulp Fiction” sheds light on James Holmes, the suspected perpetrator of a mass shooting in an Aurora, Colo. theater during which the Batman film “Dark Knight” was playing.
“I think that guy was a nut,” Tarantino said, insinuating that the alleged shooter was mentally insane and not motivated to terrorize movie-goers because of violent films.
“He went in there to kill a bunch of people because he knew there would be a lot of people there,” he said. “That’s no different from a guy going into a McDonald’s and shooting up people at lunchtime because he knows a lot of people will be there.”
On a lighter note, the eternally single “Django Unchained” director was asked about his ideal wife, telling Playboy that ideally she would be found from the very pages of the famous magazine. “If I want to live in Paris for a year, what the [bleep]? I can. I don’t have to arrange anything; I can just do it. If there is an actor or director I want to get obsessed with and study their films for the next 12 days, I can do that. The perfect person would be a Playmate who would enjoy that.”