Article: Hollywood's new hit men. (writer-directors Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary and producer Lawrence Bender) (Interview)

The smart, violent, ultrahip B flicks made by writer-directors Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) and Roger Avary (Killing Zoe) and their producer Lawrence Bender (Fresh) are shaking the Hollywood crime thriller out of its tree. Interview talked to this trio of movie-mad moviemakers and to Oliver Stone, whose hallucinatory Natural Born Killers, originated by Tarantino, begins this cinema season of gloriously seedy deviance

It is already the stuff of movie legend, New Hollywood-style. Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary meet as clerks at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California. They rent movies, watch movies, talk movies, fantasize avidly of making their own. ...

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