Quentin Tarantino is capping his career after 10 films, and The Hateful Eight was his eighth.
However you feel about Quentin Tarantino’s excessively violent filmmaking style, the man is undoubtedly one of the most iconic auteurs of our time.
It is therefore with some mixed emotions that we can report that his plans to retire after having written and directed a total of 10 films still stands.
Tarantino first made the announcement in 2014, and at The Creativity Conference in San Diego on Thursday, he reaffirmed the sentiment.
The 53-year-old filmmaker made his mainstream debut with modern classics Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and his illustrious career of course also counts the two-part Kill Bill.
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The Hateful Eight was one of his most extreme films to date, and received some mixed reactions, although Tarantino superfans loved it.
When making his announcement, Tarantino said:
“There this incredible satisfaction for me to think back, to [what is] usually only two years ago … to think that there was a moment in time where me and a pen were sitting at a table in front of a blank piece of paper. [It’s] very gratifying for me.”
Modest as always, Quentin Tarantino wants to be “considered one of the greatest filmmakers who ever lived.”
“That would be successful,” he says, “and going further, a great artist, not just filmmaker.”
According to Variety, his next project will be a 1930s gangster movie set in Australia, and the final outing could revolve around his fascination with the year 1970.
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