I traveled the world. I studied Scientology. I spent time with friends, family. I mean, it wasn't that I wasn't offered anything – it was that for various reasons I decided not to do them. I remember that certain movies came up and I just went, “Naah…” The interesting thing is that years ago, two years wasn't looked at as a long time between movies. In the Warren Beatty/ Robert Redford/Paul Newman/Dustin Hoffman school, you did a movie every two years and that was admired. [Grins] Of course, in Warren Beatty's case, sometimes it was every three or four years. And then, the mid-'80s come, and suddenly two years is too long a time. So I had to change gears.

Meaning…?

I used to turn down things I liked. Just because I felt like taking time off. This is the first time in my life where I said: “O.K., you really like White Man's Burden. Are you going to do it or, because you'd like to enjoy the success of Pulp Fiction, are you gonna take the fall off and turn it down?” Because I could have done that, too – I mean, I could've rode the train all the way home.

Just drive around in the Rolls and wave at people……

Yeah, if you want to. The thing is that before, I would have probably said 'no' to all three [of these] movies and then, in a year, when I felt like it – I'd take a lesser project that wasn't as good. “Hey, guys, I'm ready to go to work. What do you mean there's not a great movie? OK, well then, give me whatever you've got.”

All that changed after 'Pulp.' You've said that you owe Quentin. What happens if he decides to collect?

[Laughs] There's hardly anything I wouldn't do for Quentin. But I know that he already feels paid back by my doing a good job. I know Quentin doesn't feel I owe him anything…..