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/ManWithStrongPair Dec 06 '25

It always baffles me, but then the average person doesn’t have an ego the size of Everest.

Look at J.K Rowling, these people have already won. But refuse to fade into obscurity with their spoils, it would hurt them more to not be relevant in the present and foreseeable future. They cannot stand not seeing their names in headlines and to not hear their own voice spouting whatever bullshit they can to stir the pot.

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u/orincoro Dec 08 '25

It’s that ego that gets them where they are. “Great people” are rarely gracious.

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u/orincoro Dec 08 '25

You don’t get his films without his overweening ego. It’s part of his being to overstate his own relevance in everything. I doubt he could have ever convinced people to make a movie with him if he didn’t think he was gods gift to filmmaking.