London: Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he plans to retire once he was done with his 10th film — ‘The Hateful Eight’.
The 51-year-old Oscar-winning director said that he felt it was unnecessary to keep working until people thought you couldn’t anymore, and he liked the idea of leaving his fans “wanting a bit more.”
“I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography, and so I’ve got two more to go after this. It’s not etched in stone, but that is the plan. If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career.
“If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won’t not do it just because I said I wouldn’t. But 10 and done, leaving them wanting more — that sounds right.”
Meanwhile, collaborator Samuel L Jackson, who had worked with Tarantino on ‘Pulp Fiction’, ‘Jackie Brown’ and other titles mocked Tarantino’s statement saying that if he wasn’t directing, what would he do with himself.
The director’s first film of his “10” was 1992’s Reservoir Dogs, his last cinemas outing being the slave drama Django Unchained which won two Academy Awards last year.