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Up until now, Quentin Tarantino had declined to comment on Maureen Dowdsrecent Uma Thurman storyin the New YorkTimes.
Me and Dowd never hooked up, the director says.
And, through mostly Maureen Dowds prose, I ended up taking the hit and taking the heat.
But Im sure I wasnt in a rage and I wasnt livid.
Having driven the road himself, the director was confident there would be no issue with the shot.
In the end, however, he decided to flip the direction Thurman would be driving.
Again, that is one of the biggest regrets of my life, Tarantino admits.
As a director, you learn things and sometimes you learn them through horrendous mistakes.
I figured he was having a big crush on Mira.
I said, I dont believe you.
And if you want to doKill Bill, you should probably make this right.
While remarkably gruesome out of context, Tarantino alleges both sequences were shot with the actresss consent.
I couldnt have respected Uma more during the making of the movie, the director insists.
On Monday, Thurmanposted a clip of theKill Billaccidentwith a caption seemingly absolving Tarantino.
