- Quentin Tarantino does not use email or mobile phones to communicate, Brad Pitt told BBC Radio 1 in an interview.
- The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director famously bans phones from his sets, and, as it turns out, prefers not to use them at home either.
- Pitt said Tarantino preferred to send messages via an “old voice recorder”: “You’ve got to leave a message.”
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Quentin Tarantino is – famously – not a massive fan of technology.
The maverick director is known to ban phones from his sets and will apparently go as far as to fire anyone who dares to use one at work.
In 2014, Tarantino raged against the use of digital projection over 35 mm film at the Cannes Film Festival.
"As far as I'm concerned, digital projection is the death of cinema," Tarantino said.
"The fact that most films aren't presented in 35 mm means that the world is lost. Digital projection is just television in cinema."
Even in his day-to-day, it seems Tarantino prefers to use more analogue devices than the trappings of modern technology.
In a BBC Radio 1 interview with the cast of Tarantino's latest film, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," Brad Pitt revealed that the director doesn't even like to communicate digitally.
"He doesn't email," Pitt told Radio 1's Film Critic Ali Plumb.
Plumb jokingly asked if the director communicates via telegram, to which Pitt responded, "Basically."
Instead of email or text, Pitt said if you want to contact Tarantino, you have to call him on his home phone and leave a message on his old-school answering machine.
If you were wondering why most of Tarantino's movies are set in bygone eras, now you know.
Watch the full interview below:
