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Quentin Tarantino

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21ST CENTURY TOP 50

Ranked 17th on The Guardian's 2004 List of the World's 40 Best Directors

►501 Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers

See Also

Martin Scorsese

John Woo

Director / Screenwriter / Actor / Producer / Cinematographer

1963 -

Born March 27, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Key Production Country: USA

Key Genres: Crime, Action, Martial Arts

Key Collaborators: Sally Menke (Editor), Lawrence Bender (Producer), David Wasco (Production Designer), Uma Thurman (Leading Player), Michael Madsen (Leading Character Player), Samuel L. Jackson (Leading Player), Harvey Keitel (Leading Player), David Carradine (Leading Player), Tim Roth (Leading Player), Andrzej Sekula (Cinematographer)

Highly Recommended: Reservoir Dogs (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997)

Recommended: Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Film Reference ] [ From Dusk Till Dawn with Quentin Tarantino ] [ The Quentin Tarantino Archives ] [ Jack Rabbit Slim's ] [ Bright Lights Film Journal Feature ] [ Guardian Unlimited Article (2003) ] [ 1994 Interview ] [ Everything Tarantino ] [ Crime Spree: Quentin Tarantino Fanlisting ]

Books: [ Raised by Wolves: The Turbulent Art and Times of Quentin Tarantino ] [ Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies ] [ King Pulp: The Wild World of Quentin Tarantino ] [ Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Files ] [ Quentin Tarantino: Interviews ] [ Quintessential Tarantino: The Films of Quentin Tarantino ] [ Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool ] [ Quentin Tarantino ] [ Tarantino A to Zed: The Films of Quentin Tarantino ]

DVD's: [ Amazon ]

1,000 Greatest Films: Reservoir Dogs (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994)

21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)


	"After working as a video clerk while studying acting, he used the sale of an early screenplay to raise money for his first directorial venture, Reservoir Dogs (1992), a violent heist movie that became a huge success. Noted for his witty dialogue, non-linear narratives and distinctive use of music, he has since blended humour with stylish violence to great effect, and achieved cult status as a director." - (Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006)

	"With their philosophical dimensions, unremitting representations of venality and depravity among the criminal under and over class, art cinema narrational complexities, and black humor, Tarantino's first two films are strikingly original contributions to an American cinema struggling to rebound from the artistic doldrums of the 1980s." - R. Barton Palmer (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998)

	"In so many ways, he is the epitome of that brilliant, remorseless, empty-life student that every film teacher has tried to avoid. And yet, he is a real, weird writer, a conduit for swinging, hardboiled talk which, if it is gangsterese for the moment, might one day end in inspired comedy." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)

	"Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it." - Quentin Tarantino

	"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence." - Quentin Tarantino