It's based on Kurtzman's story and Rodriguez directed it, but Tarantino wrote the screenplay.

I think he gradually built up credibility. If an equally experienced director started doing the same thing today, everyone would wonder how far the fetishism goes and ask a lot of questions.

If you work on a Tarantino film, you know there's going to be foot stuff. But that's as far as it goes - he's not a total creep like some other powerful men in Hollywood. So it's accepted as eccentric.