Quentin Tarantino just won my slashy little heart.

Tarantino and I have had a long-time love/meh relationship, but right now, he's totally my hero. He was just on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, and he's his usual nutbar self, but he completely validates fandom in a way that no other celebrity/Hollywood-creative type ever has (that I know of), and not in a jokey, wink-wink way. He strongly encourages movie audiences (and, by extrapolation, tv audiences, comic-book readers, etc.) to ignore authorial intent if they want to.

Transcription of some relevant bits:

Quentin: It's interesting what you're saying, because, you don't really have to be... some... movie expert to be able to play the subtext game.

Craig: Right.

Quentin: You know, you can watch any movie, and it doesn't matter what the director was thinking, or what the people making the movie was [sic] thinking, if you can make a case for it, you can lay in a subtext, into a film, make it a lot, much more enjoyable way to watch the film.

Craig: Right. So, by a person looking a (unintelligible)

Quentin: Like gay subtext! Gay subtext for instance! Always makes every movie better.

( embedded videos, and links to YouTube if you can't view embedded videos, under the cut )