Uma Thurman

He said he drove the car in one direction to test it, but then asked Thurman to drive it the other way.

He said he didn't realise there was a twist in the road coming back. Thurman posted footage of her crash on Monday.

The director said failing to test the route one more time was "one of my most horrendous mistakes".

Thurman suffered neck and knee injuries in the accident.

In a New York Times interview published over the weekend, Thurman said she had worries about the state of the car, but that Tarantino had persuaded her to go ahead with the scene.

The new photos were shot by German photographer Peter Lindbergh, who's often credited with the creation of the supermodel. Each actress was shot in black and white, wearing minimal makeup -- a Lindbergh signature.

His aim was to "capture sensitivity and emotion, laying bare the souls of the women in the images, rendering them more naked than a nude," he said at the international press launch in Paris.