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QT also talks about how much acting helped him both as a writer and a director, and why he does not trust composers. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spout.com\/2008\/05\/22\/cannes-quentin-tarantino-film-lecture-live-blogged\/\">Click here<\/a> for some of the class blogged live, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarantino.info\/forum\/index.php\/topic,9044.msg230599.html\">here for our forum topic<\/a>, with some pictures. <em>UPDATE<\/em>: You can actually listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.festival-cannes.fr\/en\/article\/56155.html\">the entire lecture at the official link<\/a>. Enjoy the wisdom ramblings of a master filmmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quentin Tarantino talked about all his movie influences at Cannes&#8217; 2008 Master Class. 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