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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I found myself, every six or seven years, watching it again, and it’s a luxurious experience that I give myself over to … mesmerizing masterwork.
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There’s something so charming. Eli’s sense of humor, sense of gore — it just really, really works. … Hostel might be his best movie, but this is my favorite.
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The great stuff is so great, and you’re watching a truly great filmmaker; he had all the money in the world and all the time in the world to make it exactly as he wanted.
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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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I fell so much in love with Lost in Translation that I fell in love with Sofia Coppola and made her my girlfriend.
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It’s one of my favorite last movies of a director. I’ve seen it four times, and every time I see it, I like it more. … It’s one of the best monster movies of the 21st century. The train is a monster. The train becomes a monster. And it becomes one of the greatest monsters of our time.
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In watching some of the Nic Cage stuff, the one that BLEW ME AWAY was that movie he did, “Pig.” That’s one of the best of the last five years. That’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last five years.
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I think it’s a masterwork … It keeps up the intensity for 2 hours 45 minutes, or whatever it is, and I watched it again recently, my heart was going through the entire runtime of the movie … The feat of direction is beyond extraordinary.
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That last five minutes ripped my f*cking heart out … It’s just remarkable. It’s almost a perfect movie.
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What I now love about it is that I feel there’s a real mastery to it … it just blew me away.
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The old-style craftsmanship quality to the film. It had an old Hollywood craftsmanship without trying to be like that. … This was about dealing with the narrative, dealing with the story, and he did it f*cking amazingly.
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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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I really can’t stand Owen Wilson. I spent the first time watching the movie loving it and hating him. … Then the third time I watched it, I found myself only watching him.
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This has got a fantastic script and a similar storyline to Prisoners … they handle it with guts and balls.
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This was the movie I laughed at the most in these last 20 years.
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It was a real fun, fun, fun screening.
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Mel did a tremendous directorial job. He put me in that time period.
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This rough Peckinpah-cowboy-Manson thing [from Zombie] — that voice didn’t really exist before [in House of 1000 Corpses], and he refined that voice with this movie.
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This is some of the greatest kung-fu fights I’ve ever seen in a movie.
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Brad Pitt’s performance was one of my favorite star performances of the last 20 years — where a movie star came in and reminded you why he was a movie star and just carried the movie on his shoulders.
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This is the one where Steven shows he still has it. I don’t think Scorsese has made a film this exciting [this century].
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My favorite movie that has come out in the last 17 years.
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Hands down, my favorite British movie that has come out since I’ve been making movies.
My favorite directorial debut … It’s not a spoof of zombie movies, it’s a real zombie movie.
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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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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
