Like, I knew all along that Quentin Tarantino movies were all about The Movies and moviemaking, but I just now thought to realize that his “dead nigger storage” scene in Pulp Fiction was taking the piss out of himself as a director, and directors in general

Like, Samuel L. Jackson was an experienced professional who’d been doing his thing for decades at that point, but he still had to politely let this reedy, coked up San Fernando Valley whiteboy scream abuse about how to do his job, uselessly melting down and then getting saved by a producer-fixer (“The Wolf”), and then giving the stars shit over the outcome of his own creative decisions (“They look like a couple of dorks/They’re your clothes, motherfucker”)