A Taxonomy of Alternative Plots in Recent Films: Classifying the "Tarantino Effect"‪.‬

It's not so much I don't believe in it [linear storytelling], it's not the fact that I'm on this big crusade against linear storytelling ... but it's not the only game in town. If I had written Pulp Fiction as a novel ... you would never even remotely bring up the structure.... A novel can do that [non-linear storytelling], no problem. Novelists have always had just a complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's kind of what I'm trying to do. Now the thing is, for both novels and film, 75% of the stories you're going to tell will work better on a dramatically engaging basis to be told from a linear way. But there is that 25% out there that can be more resonant by telling it this [non-linear] way. And I think in the case of both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, it gains a lot more resonance being told in this kinda, like, wild way. --Quentin Tarantino, on "The Charlie Rose Show"