119 - The Great Waldo Pepper
The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
George Roy Hill's Dreams
George Roy Hill was a pilot, but until you said it, I didn't know that he was like actually in the plane operating in the camera. That'd be like me driving the camera car in the chase in Death Proof. If I want the camera to get that close and I want this shot, I need to put the plane. And if something's going to happen, the buck stops here. This is George Roy Hill actualizing his dream through Waldo Pepper. When Waldo takes an assumed name when he goes to Hollywood, he's called George. He takes the name George and it's like, there's like actually a colored history of movie directors wanting to be pilots and not
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