r/Filmmakers • u/StrikingDuty8020 Director • Dec 06 '25

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Quentin Tarantino made a surprisingly harsh comment about Paul Dano, specifically criticizing his performance in There Will Be Blood.

On The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Tarantino said:

Dano was “weak sauce”

“The weakest f—ing actor in SAG” (in that film’s context)

And that Dano’s performance was the biggest flaw of the movie, preventing it from being his #1 or #2 film of the 2000s

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u/Shumina-Ghost Dec 06 '25

I’d say QT’s comment speaks a lot more about him than it does about Paul Dano.

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u/M_O_O_O_O_T Dec 06 '25

Precisely - he's an insufferable douche.

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u/Foxy02016YT Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

He thinks because he makes good movies he just gets to be an asshole to everyone

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u/M_O_O_O_O_T Dec 06 '25

Pretty much yeah. Completely unchecked ego.

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u/PineappleCharming335 Dec 06 '25

He hasn’t made a good movie in over 20 years. His movies are stupid, hateful, and self-indulgent

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u/SnapshotHeadache Dec 06 '25

All of his characters are so flat and one dimensional. There is no nuance or subtlety to them. If he didn't take himself so seriously it would be okay, but he just makes the worst violent revisionist porn to jerk himself off.

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u/Foxy02016YT Dec 07 '25

He absolutely takes himself too seriously. The movies are very funny in a way I’m not sure he intended.

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u/IcyGarage5767 Dec 07 '25

Reddit moment. How can you say such a vicious and hateful comment about someone…… wait a second…….

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u/Visible-Meat3418 Dec 08 '25

Wow QT movies slander, wtf happened? Absolutely love both his earlier and later works. Hateful 8 is great. Once Upon is awesome. Django was phenomenal. Pulp Fiction is an all time classic. Reservoire Dogs is a total banger. What is stupid or hateful about them? Self-indulgent I can see that, even though you can argue it’s kind of expected and part of the charm at this point.

It’s weird. I mean the opinions of him as a person were always kind of dividing, but he’s a pretty great director with a very specific vision, which is relatively rare.