Quentin Tarantino is prioritizing finding the proper work-life balance. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker flew to Utah from Israel on Monday to attend the Sundance Film Festival.
He sat down for a conversation with esteemed film critic and host Elvis Mitchell, and was asked about his work since the release of his last film Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood back in 2019. Tarantino said that he had been focusing on writing and is not necessarily raring to get started on his next film, as first reported by Variety.
"I'm in no hurry to actually jump into production," he said. "I've been doing that for 30 years. Next month my son turns five, and I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. When I'm in America, I'm writing. When I'm in Israel? I'm an abba, which means father."
He would go on to talk more about his children, saying, "The idea of jumping on a voyage when they're too young to understand it is not enticing to me. I kind of want to not do whatever movie I end up doing until my son is at least six. That way he'll know what's going on, he'll be there, and it will be a memory for the rest of his life."
With regards to his daughter, Tarantino did not have the same concerns, saying that she "is already a genius, she'll just get it."
While his son is only a year away from the age of six, film fans may have to wait a little bit longer because Tarantino already has his sights set on his next project and it won't be in cinemas. "I'm writing a play," he said. "It's probably going to be the next thing I end up doing."
Mitchell asked Tarantino about his decision, which led to a classic expletive-filled rant from the director about the current state of the film industry and the comparison to the world of theater.
"That's a challenge," Tarantino said about pulling off a play. "But making movies? Well what the f*** is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four f****** weeks?"
Expressing his frustration, he said that he "didn't get into all this for diminishing returns." He would continue to highlight the shortening of films' theatrical runs, calling them a "show pony exercise."
On the other side, Tarantino believes that all the thoughts he has about the current state of film isn't present in theater. "There's no f****** taping, there's no f****** cellphones," he said. "You own the audience for that time, for that moment they are all yours, they are in the palm of your hands."
He also revealed that if the play turns out be a smash hit, it could possibly be turned into his final film. ~Ryan Donahue
from a smart woman and waddy wachtel's cousin...what you should make is Mean Streets 2, one was such a great cult film and is still watched, now wouldn't that be a surprise and it would be a surprise everyone would look forward to. I'm not sure how I'd write it...probably aoout the sons of the original cast and the same exact struggles that young men are dealing with today...and that group of subjects is huge since they are so angry, as you know and need a leader, any leader..to give them purpose. Everyone is waiting on the ege of their seats for you to pull of a great new film, that's meaty and not full of shitty empty fluff. If I were you?? I would do that, no big budget disney shit, stick to the subjects that dig deep into the stuff that America wants to see...it could be dark, it could death many of the controversial issues that are hot right now, I would not go over board with racial issues unless you are willing to go there. Pulp fiction 2? I cant see how would write that.