After three decades of filmmaking, critically acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino has announced that he is about to call it quits on his career.
The director recently told Catalan newspaper Ara that he is ‘ready to quit.’ Quentin Tarantino is best known for his classic films which include Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Kill Bill. His decision to leave the industry was never something the director avoided talking about. Tarantino revealed in 2009 that he intended to retire at the age of sixty. He appears to be sticking to his plans, as he stated earlier this year that he will ‘write novels and cinema literature, stuff like that.’
Quentin Tarantino has repeatedly hinted at his retirement over the years. He also announced back in March that ‘The Movie Critic‘ will be his tenth and final film. ‘Yes, it is part of the landscape,’ He said of the late film critic Pauline Kael, who inspired his 2022 novel ‘Cinema Speculation‘, and also influenced The Movie Critic to some extent. ‘The story takes place in a world where Pauline Kael exists and is alluded to, but the film is not about her.’
When asked what prompted his decision to leave the industry, Tarantino simply replied, ‘It’s just that I’ve been making movies for thirty years and I’m ready to quit.’ He stated that he would ‘very much like’ to write more books and even said, ‘I want to make a second volume of [Cinema Speculation] that also encompasses the ’70s but with other films, also from my adolescence. And then I will jump to the ’80s and I will also talk about cinema from outside the United States.’
