‘Pulp Fiction’ reportedly went from a rental-store brainstorm to Miramax financing

A movie-history thread says Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary brainstormed a non-linear, character-driven story while working at Los Angeles rental store Video Archives. It says Danny De Vito heard a pitch, and Jersey Films bought the rights before the script was finished. The thread says Columbia TriStar studio head Mike Medavoy pulled out of the deal over the violence; Miramax later took on the film, which the thread describes as its first fully self-financed feature.