He made an appearance on Howard Stern talking about what a bad job Chow Yun-Fat did in The Replacement Killers.  If you want to hear what he said, then here's the link.  This was taken from W. Louis' CYF: God of Actors Page.

Now as anyone knows, QT has basically ripped off his ideas from Hong Kong flicks.  Hmmm...think of "Reservoir Dogs".  QT may as well have just translated the last part of "City on Fire". Remember how they dressed? It's a direct rip-off from "A Better Tomorrow II" where CYF and the other protagonists wore the black suits, black ties, white shirt, etc. Although "City on Fire" was directed by Ringo Lam (thanx to alt.asian-movies for pointing that out), you can see the rip-off plain and clear. And I seem to recall a reference to "The Killer" in Jackie Brown, where he incorrectly identified the Killer's gun.

The following quote was taken from "The Films of John Woo and the Art of Heroic Bloodshed" (the comments in parentheses are there to clarify): "After seeing ABT (A Better Tomorrow), future director Quentin Tarantino rushed out to buy a coat to emulate his new-found role model (Chow Yun-Fat)."

• Destiny Turns on the Radio was a joke. For someone who was trying to play the "cool" guy, he just doesn't look the part...it's a joke!
• Four Rooms was fine except for the short that QT directed. And again, maybe it was the script..or maybe it was the way that QT tried to act...not funny at all.
• In the same spirit as Four Rooms, QT's character in "Desperado" as the fast-talking jokester was pretty lame, although the joke itself was funny.
• From Dusk Til Dawn. Once again, you can see QT's bad acting at work. Rodriguez did the right thing by killing his character off first.
• Jackie Brown was OK, let's just be happy that we didn't have to see QT's wimpy face trying to be tough.
• On his little role in Pulp Fiction, he screwed even that up. I mean, he put too much emotion into saying that when his wife buys coffee, she buys shit.

This little snippet was taken from "The Movie Shelf's Sonny Chiba Page"

"Another interesting Quentin Tarantino and Sonny Chiba connection is EZEKIEL 25:17. Do you remember that catchy speech that Samuel Jackson gave in Pulp Fiction? "The path of the righteous man... etc."? Well it originates from the Bible of course, but Apartment 304 doubts that Tarantino looked through the bible for cool speechs a hitman could recite. At the beginning of Chiba's 1970 film, The Bodyguard, (originally titled Karate Kiba in Japan,) the same biblical doctrine is scrolled down the screen. Except for one difference; where Samuel Jackson says, "and you will know my name is the Lord," the Bodyguard's doctrine states, "and they shall know that I am Chiba the Bodyguard." Very interesting, no? Yes? "

Once he came down to insulting one of the nicest people I've ever met in my life (Chow Yun-Fat) and saying that he "ruined" The Replacement Killers, I couldn't overlook that.  Then he went even further to say that CYF had better learn to speak English. Well, I've seen TRK, and it seems to me that CYF WAS speaking English. Pretty damn good English considering it isn't his first, second, or even third language! And also you have to say, "hmm, John Lee (CYF's character) was from China, so wouldn't it be normal to expect some kind of foreign accent?"

QT went beyond professional criticism when it came to CYF's performance, in fact, he got pretty personal when talking about Fat-Gor when he brought up that "if you're going to make an AMERICAN movie with an actress as good as Mira, you'd better learn some fucking English" implying that maybe Chow Yun-Fat was an inferior actor. Wonder if QT knows that even though Mira is an Academy Award winning actress, CYF is an award winning actor as well.

Maybe it's a shortcoming of mine, but I don't see how a bad actor can say such a thing about one of the greatest actors today.  So in my opinion, it's stupid of him to be cutting anyone down based on acting merit.  He is the worst P.O.S. actor I've ever seen in my life!  It seems that he only gets into his own films or his friends' movies.  He would never make it based on his acting ability, of which he has none.

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