Quentin Tarantino talked about all his movie influences at Cannes’ 2008 Master Class. Directors such as Brian DePalma, Mario Bava, Howard Hawks, Sergio Leone, Martin Scorsese and Jean Luc Godard were some of his biggest influences when he started out directing. QT also talks about how much acting helped him both as a writer and a director, and why he does not trust composers. Click here for some of the class blogged live, and …

Many many years ago, Q took up a role in the broadway play Wait Until Dark, an adaptation of a novel of the same name. Critics ripped his performance to pieces. According to Dateline Hollywood, Quentin commented on actress Katie Holmes’  (yeah the chick with a kid from scientology’s mascot Tom Cruise) plans to follow in his footsteps. He was quoted saying the following at a press conference he held earlier this week: “Finally, …