Yep... I was at a screening last night at the DGA in Hollywood, where they screened Kill Bill V1, then had a panel discussion with QT, the editor of the film, the sound designer, and the props manager... here are some pearls I got from him during the panel discussion (some of this may already be common knowledge)...
QT was asked about the script writing process, and how he deals with that... and he made a comment about how for him, the script and the editing are the same thing... he said that the TRUE first draft of the film is the rough cut, and the final draft of the script is the final edit. He likes changing and refining the story in the edit bay as he goes along. He said he doesn't like watching dailies during the shoot though... he leaves it to the editor during production... the first time he talks to the editor is at the very end of the shoot, by which time she has a rough cut made already (with the exception of the last month or so of shooting)...
there were 1 million feet of raw film in this movie, and it took 155 days to shoot. he said that originally, it was going to take 90 days... but then afterwards he heard about how crouching tiger took like 180, and some others took over 160, and he thought how stupid he was to have thought it would take so little time to shoot!
He said he originally wanted to work with multiple cinematographers... one for each character's killing... that way each part of the movie would have a unique look... it'd be like multiple movies in one... "give the audience more movies for their price of admission" was the quote, i think... he ended up settling on 2, then Robert sent him a letter telling him how he really wanted to work with him on this film... they met, and watched tons of kung fu movies... then Robert went on his own and got more, and QT was excited that Robert had selected the movies he did... they were on the same page as far as what they wanted... and the editor also watched kung fu movies with QT... and also lots of kung fu movie trailers...
anyways, so this is a little from the discussion from last night... at one point, someone in the back asked about the "allegations" of animal abuse when an animal was killed on the set of KB V2... and QT talked about how it was a chicken that got run over in mexico... it was an accident, and he handled the question very well... after the following question, i looked back to that woman who asked the animal question, and she was gone... she probably just went to try to make QT look bad, and couldn't, so left.
If I remember more, i'll post some more...