- Quentin Tarantino told the Catalan publication Diari Ara that he doesn't see sex in his "vision of cinema."
- He said sex scenes are "a pain to shoot" and they haven't "been necessary" to his movies.
Quentin Tarantino has caused a stir among movie fans after saying in a recent interview that he doesn't see sex in his "vision of cinema."
The celebrated director is known for his liberal use of violence and strong language in his movies, and for the occasional scene in which a woman shows her bare feet. However, Tarantino's movies tend to not have many sex scenes, with the exceptions of "Jackie Brown" and "Inglourious Basterds."
When asked about this during an interview with the Catalan publication Diari Ara, the "Pulp Fiction" director responded (via Variety): "It's true, sex is not part of my vision of cinema. And the truth is that, in real life, it's a pain to shoot sex scenes, everyone is very tense."
"If it was already a bit problematic to do it before, now it is even more so. If there had ever been a sex scene that was essential to the story, I would have, but so far it hasn't been necessary," Tarantino added.
In response, Twitter users were quick to make jokes about scenes in Tarantino's movies often lingering on women's feet.
"but these were necessary?" wrote one person alongside a photo of Margot Robbie's feet in "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood."
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In 2020, after Brad Pitt won best supporting actor at the SAG Awards for his role in "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood," the actor also poked fun at Tarantino's penchant for filming feet.
"I want to thank my costars, Leo, Margot Robbie, Margot Robbie's feet, Margaret Qualley's feet, Dakota Fanning's feet," said Pitt, referring to the fact that all three actors bared their feet in the movie.
Pitt added: "Seriously, Quentin has separated more women from their shoes than the TSA."
In 2019, the movie's cinematographer Robert Richardson spoke to Insider about the focus on feet, saying: "I'm used to it. It's not like they are scripted. It's more Quentin just reacting: 'This is what I want to shoot now and let's start there and come to here.' That's it."
In 2021, Tarantino finally addressed the prevalence of bare feet in his movies in an interview with GQ.
"I don't take it seriously. There's a lot of feet in a lot of good directors' movies. That's just good direction," Tarantino said. "Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director. And Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it."