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6. Quentin Tarantino Insisted The Cast Say Hello To Editor Sally Menke At The End Of Takes
As much as one gets the impression that a Quentin Tarantino set must be a high-stress environment at the best of times, the filmmaker nevertheless devised a sweet-yet-peculiar ritual for all of his productions until the release of 2012's Django Unchained.
Tarantino would encourage his cast to say hello to his long-time editor Sally Menke at the end of a take, ensuring that some cute surprises were waiting for her when she was later shaping the movie in the editing room.
Sadly this all came to an end with Menke's untimely passing in 2010, yet while cutting Django Unchained with his new editing collaborator Fred Raskin, Tarantino reportedly put up a sign reading "WWSD" - "What Would Sally Do?"