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What were the major challenges of bringing "Kill Bill" to the screen?
This movie in the particular was a huge deal ? China, Tokyo, LA, out to the desert, down to Mexico. It was a huge production. We brought a fight team from Hong Kong down here to where we trained Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah and Vivica A Fox. Sonny Chiba trained them in samurai. It was a huge [task] of putting a big puzzle together.

It was an enormous challenge with a wonderful script. We shot it for four months.
We were in Beijing working with the Chinese people. Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City were literally a few blocks away from where we were living. [While getting ready to film] we were learning the language, finding the right translators, just learning all these things.

Learning to work with different types of people all making a movie at the same time was really a cool experience. I have to tell you, it sounds corny but I really felt like China and America have been combative for many, many years and you really could see how two different types of people really work together and come out with something really well done. We had a Japanese, Chinese, and America crew. Everyone got along and everyone figured out how to work together. It was a really great experience.

How has Quentin Tarantino changed as a director over the years?
I think he?s the same person, just growing - growing as a human being, maturing.

I think this movie is cinematically? He?s taken a huge leap. It?s phenomenal. With the changes in color and Japanese Anime, there are just so many pieces to this movie cinematically. And the music ? everything from Quincy Jones, to Marconi, to Nancy Sinatra singing ?Bang Bang? to 70s disco. It?s just such a cool [collection] of music. And then there?s Uma Thurman. She is so phenomenal. She?s beautiful, she?s grounded, she?s emotional, and she?s a warrior.

Do you two have anything else coming up?
Just ?Volume 2.? ?Volume 2? is all I can think about right now (laughing).

Are you going to do anything with ?Inglorious Bastards??
I don?t know ? maybe (laughing). We have to see what happens with the movie first.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Interviews with Uma Thurman and David Carradine
Lucy Liu, Julie Dreyfus, and Chiaki Kuriyama Interviews
Interview with Michael Madsen
"Kill Bill" Photos, Trailer, Credits, and Movie News