Quentin Tarantino reveals heroin-fuelled night out in Paris that inspired 1990s film

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino and his friend, fellow director Roger Avary, have opened up about a drug-fuelled night in Paris which inspired one of the latter’s films. “I had been telling Quentin the stories, and he said, ‘Oh, you should do a movie called ‘Roger Takes A Trip‘.” Tarantino joked in response: “I still think it should’ve been called that”. open image in gallery Once upon a time in southern France: Quentin Tarantino at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 Avary added: “I had been in Paris, I had bumped into a guy I knew who was from Los Angeles who was a French guy. “His friends were like, ‘Ohh, doing it through the nose doesn’t even affect me anymore’, and I’m like writing these lines down, like, ‘This is great s***!’.” Watch Apple TV+ free for 7 days New subscribers only.