You can't HELP but love Quentin Tarantino! I mean, check out this photo from his most recent NY Times Style Magazine interview. In case you are wondering, the heels are from Trash and Vaudeville. :)

Sitting at the foot of a bed draped with Diane Kruger, Quentin showed off a much more sensual side than we are used to. Here are a few excerpts from the interview.

When you’re making a film, like this year’s ‘‘Inglourious Basterds,’’ which will premiere at Cannes, is it hard to watch movies?

Maybe it’s just this movie, but it’s become very hard to concentrate on anything but the film I’m making. This was the hardest movie I’ve ever made.

‘‘Inglourious Basterds’’ is a World War II epic that combines historical events with a vivid, pop sensibility. The movie stars, among others, Brad Pitt as an American lieutenant in search of Nazis and Diane Kruger as a German movie star/spy. It’s both authentic and highly theatrical. Did you shoot on soundstages in America or in Europe?

We shot the film in Berlin and a little bit in Paris. I only cast actors who could speak English with their native accents. The Germans have accents, the French are French, and the English are English. During the war, your understanding of German, whether you were a French citizen or you were in a concentration camp, meant the difference between life and death. In Hollywood movies, Germans often have English accents, and I can’t go for that contrivance. The proper accent could be the difference between success and failure.

On this movie, you worked very quickly. Was that partially to have the film ready in time for Cannes?

Yes. I wanted to have a masterpiece before the decade’s out.
What directors made you want to become a filmmaker?
Sergio Leone and Mario Bava. I saw ‘‘Baron Blood’’ and ‘‘Beyond the Door II’’ by Bava in the theater, and I was overwhelmed. And Leone is Leone. Those two influenced me the most as far as thinking in terms of shots. And then I was in acting school, and I discovered I knew drastically so much more about cinema than anyone else in my class. I realized I was with the wrong group.

To read the full interview and see the rest of the photos, click here.