Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword.
Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

