3. Collaborators
Can all the people who don't like Samuel L Jackson please stop reading right now? Ok, so now that everyone is still here, let me rattle off a few names: Uma Thurman, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L Jackson and Harvey Keitel. Each of these actors owe some of their most prominent and well known work to Mr Tarantino. They are as well known as he is, in some cases, mostly for their work in his films. So when a director surrounds himself with ludicrously cool individuals such as Mr Jackson and Mrs Thurman, and then proceeds to translate their "cool" to the big screen with lots of blood, swearing and swords, why shouldn't everybody from the ages of 15-55 not know and love him?