Tim Roth Talks Starring In The Horror Film Resurrection, Collaborating With Quentin Tarantino, And More – Exclusive Interview – Looper

You've appeared in several of Quentin Tarantino's films. What do you enjoy about working with him that keeps you coming back?

Well, with him, it goes back to day one, and day one was getting the script [for "Reservoir Dogs"]. When he sent the script over, when he was brand new, when he was in that even ... What's Andrew [Semans] made, two? This is his second film. Quentin hadn't made one yet. This was the beginning for him.

There's this script that landed it came from my agent. I was brand new. I'd just arrived in America and was heading out didn't want to stay and then got this script, read it, and went, "What?" I didn't even get through it. I was about 20 pages in, and I was on the phone going, "What is this? I want to do this."

That hasn't changed. The thing that's changed about Quentin is that he now has the experience that he didn't have. But in a way, he always had it. He'd been making films for a long time [in his head] before he made his first film. But his experience, his actual experience with the camera making his film, that was his first one.

I don't think he's changed. What we are looking at is somebody who's been given the space to make the films that he's always wanted to make, and his horizons are limitless.

He got to that position quickly. He got to make his choices about the stories he wanted to tell. "Pulp Fiction" came fairly quickly after "Reservoir Dogs," and then he was on a roll and has been since. We are whatever, for whatever. We wait as a gang. His actors if you're lucky enough to consider yourself one of his actors we wait for the phone to ring, and we hope it's going to.

You go, "Oh, it's so sad if you don't. There's nothing in there?" That's what happens. But it is the gang that he creates as he goes. He adds to that, this incredible stable of actors that he takes with him on these journeys.

He's an extraordinary filmmaker, but that's the first-time director ... and I've worked with many. It's been a thing that I've always wanted to do and still do, which is [working with] first-time, new talent, new storytelling. You never know. You might find another one.

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