Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films have earned him a variety of Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d'Or Awards and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy Awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time. Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician born in Queens, New York. Tarantino's mother allowed him to quit school at age 17, to attend an acting class full time. Tarantino gave up acting while attending the acting school, saying that he admired directors more than actors. Tarantino also worked in a video rental store before becoming a filmmaker, paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent, and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Quentin Tarantino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
| Known for | Directing |
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| Born | 27 Mar 1963 |
| Place of birth | Knoxville, Tennessee, USA |
Favorite films
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It might be easy to take Speed for granted now, but if you actually remember when Speed came out, what it was like to sit in the movie theater as that bus was going down the road, there really have been few exhilaration movies quite like it.
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One not only has Bruce Willis’s best performance on film that he's ever given, I think he’s absolutely magnificent in the film. It also is a brilliant retelling of the Superman mythology.
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Hands down, my favorite British movie that has come out since I’ve been making movies.
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Movie that I think actually probably contains the greatest stunts.
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One of the most interesting and complex films on the entire list.
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My favorite movie that has come out in the last 17 years.
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Absolutely wonderful Korean monster movie.
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Maybe one of the greatest scripts ever written for film. And I actually think if he had actually done it on the stage, he would won a Pulitzer Prize.
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I think maybe the greatest, maybe along with Rio Bravo, the greatest hangout movie ever made.
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True masterpiece if ever there was one.
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Known for
Cast: Warren (segment "Death Proof") / Rapist #1 (segment "Planet Terror")
Crew: Director, Director of Photography, Presenter, Producer, Writer
