Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Christopher Nolan On Retiring From Filmmaking & If He’ll Direct Another Superhero Movie
deadline.comChristopher Nolan is one of the most lauded directors in Hollywood with Oppenheimer set to drop in theaters this week. The filmmaker is opening up about where he stands on the notion of retiring and if he would ever make another superhero movie.
During a recent interview, Nolan was asked about his future in filmmaking and how he sees himself in the years ahead. On one side, Quentin Tarantino said he would be retiring following his tenth film, while Martin Scorsese has continued making films into his 80s but recently acknowledged he’s getting older. “The truth is, I understand both points of view.
It’s addictive to tell stories in cinema. It’s a lot of hard work, but it’s very fun. It’s something you feel driven to do, and so it’s a little hard to imagine voluntarily stopping,” Nolan said during an interview on CinemaBlend’s podcast ReelBlend. “But I also see … Quentin’s point has always been that – and he never, very graciously, he’s never specific about the films he’s talking about or whatever – but he’s looking at some of the work done by filmmakers in later years and feeling that if it can’t live up to the heyday, it would be better if it didn’t exist.
And I think that’s a very purest point of view. It’s the point of view of a cinephile who prizes film history.” Nolan said that he’s not entirely “sure that I would trust my own sense of the absolute value of a piece of work to know whether or not it should have been brought into existence.” The Interstellar director said he’s a “big fan” of films that don’t always “fully achieve what they try to” and adds, “I think (I) wanted to keep a sort of perfect reputation of something, but also kind of don’t want to take anything off the table.” In a separate interview with
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