A Journey That Needs To End: Tarantino Planning To Quit After 10 Films?
Quentin Tarantino is a man who needs no introduction. He’s one of Hollywood’s hottest directors, and each project that he touches ends up being more anticipated (and often more successful) than the last. Tarantino is just 40 days from the release of his latest work, Django Unchained, and he recently gave Playboy and extremely interesting and revealing interview.
Interviewer Michael Flemming did a fantastic job, and it’s definitely one of the most interesting conversations I’ve read in quite some time. The pair speak of Django casting, marijuana, his controversial language choices, the Dark Knight Rises tragedy, and much, much more.
One of the most interesting points that the interview makes is one that shouldn’t be surprising at all: Tarantino doesn’t want to do this forever. He states that he’s on an artistic journey, and of course every journey needs to have an ending.
Check out some of the more interesting tidbits below, and please read the full interview at Playboy.com! If you’re so inclined, you’ll also be able to pick up a paper version when Playboy‘s December issue hits next Tuesday.
On quitting making movies while he’s ahead: “I’m on a journey that needs to have an end and not be about me trying to get another job. I want this artistic journey to have a climax. I want to work toward something. You stop when you stop, but in a fanciful world, 10 movies in my filmography would be nice. I’ve made seven. If I have a change of heart, if I come up with a new story, I could come back. But if I stop at 10, that would be okay as an artistic statement.”
On getting high while in production: “I wouldn’t do anything impaired while making a movie. I don’t so much write high, but say you’re thinking about a musical sequence. You smoke a joint, you put on some music, you listen to it and you come up with some good ideas. …I don’t need pot to write, but it’s kind of cool.”
On his ideal wife: “If I want to live in Paris for a year, what the f*ck? I can. I don’t have to arrange anything; I can just do it. If there is an actor or director I want to get obsessed with and study their films for the next 12 days, I can do that. The perfect person would be a Playmate who would enjoy that.”
On rewriting history in Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained: “You turn on a movie and know how things are going to go in most films. Every once in a while films don’t play by the rules. It’s liberating when you don’t know what’s happening next. …I thought, What about telling these kinds of stories my way – rough and tough but gratifying at the end?”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Again, I emplore you to check out Playboy‘s entire interview with Quentin. It’s a fantastic read.
