Coffee With a Tarantino Legend

In 1991, my mom worked as a production coordinator on a low-budget movie shot largely in downtown Los Angeles. Midway through production, she called to tell me about the young director beguiling the crew with his boundless energy and enthusiasm. “He reminds everyone why we got into movies,” she said. The film was Reservoir Dogs and the director was Quentin Tarantino. I was a struggling screenwriter. My mom befriended Tarantino’s manager Cathryn James and arranged for me to have lunch with her. We hit it off and a year later I was invited to a Christmas party at her Studio City home. <a href="https://lorenwoodcuts.medium.com/coffee-with-a-tarantino-legend-71123026d862">Read More</a>