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QT :

"....when I finished it and I had been 

on The Film-festival circuit 

with it for a year when the, uh --

when Miramax bought it....

Harvey tried to talk me into 

cutting the torture scene out --"

Joe Rogan :

 -- oh .....The --

QT :

....with Mr. Blonde and 

the guy in the chair, and --

yeah yeah uh 

"He tried to talk me uh -- out of that;

and his reasoning was ---- he might've 

ended up being right, actually --

all right, his reasoning was. "Look, 

Quentin : This is a movie 

that anybody can watch; 

but with that torture scene, 

you're gonna alienate women; 

they're not going to want to see this, 

so you're literally -- You're putting 

your own movie in a little box; 

but without that scene anybody 

can go and see this movie and 

everybody will enjoy it --

And um -- that's kind of actually 

where I became Me -- because 

Harvey was used to winning 

these type of arguments, 

he had a bunch of Yes-Men, 

going  "Yeah, yeah -- ", and 

"You know --" and -- 

But because I had actually been 

on the film festival circuit 

for an entire year --

One, I saw that he was right, 

because people were always 

walking out during that scene, 

sometimes it would be five 

sometimes it would be thirty-five,

alright, they were always 

walking out because --

also it's a film festival, 

so you don't exactly know 

what you're seeing  you know? 

You read it in the catalog, 

it sounds interesting, you know, 

it's not like you know it's 

not like you're being set up 

the way you are when a movie opens 

theatrically, right you know so --

but I didn’t know that, yet --

No that's -- That was

The Moment of Truth, for 

most people, that scene; 

but now I think it's 

the best scene in 

the fuckin' movie --

So, uh --

...and I'd spend a year watching it, 

so I wasn't gonna be buffaloed, and 

I go, "Well, you know, it's that movie, 

it's... what the movie is, and uh, um -- 

You may be right, but I don't care : 

This is the movie and 

it has that scene.” and —

Harvey realised he wasn't going to 

get his way,  and he's used to 

getting his way, I — I stood fast 

and there was like a beat 

of like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5:

"………Okay, 

We're gonna leave the scene in, 

and I want you to remember that 

it was Miramax who left it alone --"

Joe Rogan :

Wow..... That's, uh.... -- an interesting 

way to control The Situation —

Q.T. :

— right? 

Joe Rogan :

To take it —

Q.T. :

— yeah, 

Joe Rogan :

— bring it all back to him....

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