Quentin Climbed Everest in Kill Bill

Fri, 09 March 2007 12:00:00 ET

Quentin Tarantino says making "Kill Bill" was like climbing Mount Everest. The director admits the violent film was a personal struggle for him and he considered many different scenarios before settling on the storyline.

Quentin told Britain's Culture magazine: "I consider making 'Kill Bill' as like me climbing Mount Everest. I taught myself how to climb as I climbed it. I would write all these scenarios of things that could happen with Uma Thurman's character and then I would think, 'Nah, I don't want to go there.'

"I wanted her to get into a big car chase. She's in the Pussy Wagon and drives under the 'bat bridge' and there are bats bouncing off the windshield. You cut to the outside of the bridge, and it's like two million bats and this car - BOOM!"

Quentin admits he is struggling to get excited about his latest project, a World War II movie, and doesn't know if he has the strength to "climb another mountain". He said: "Now that I've climbed Mount Everest I don't know if these little hills are going to be so attractive. I don't know if I want to start that expedition again.

"I've been planning this war film for a while and its time to do it. But it's a big, Mount Everest kind of epic, and I've already climbed it, so I've got to get myself to do it again."