Quentin Tarantino has slammed the state of the film industry during a surprise appearance at Sundance Film Festival.
The acclaimed director has been behind the camera for some of the biggest movies around, including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained – with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx.
Speaking in a rare interview with Elvis Mitchell at the Elvis Suite, the 61-year-old explained that he is in no hurry to get started on his last project as his focus is currently on writing a play – and spending time with his children.
‘That’s a big f**king deal, pulling [a play] off, and I don’t know if I can. That’s a challenge, a genuine challenge,’ he declared, via Variety, before calling out the way movies are made and released in present day.
‘But making movies? Well, what the f**k is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four f**king weeks?
‘And by the second week you can watch it on television.’
‘I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ‘97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last f**king year of movies,’ he continued.
‘That was a s**t deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? It’s a show pony exercise.
‘Now the theatrical release and then in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. Okay. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.’
‘They pay a lot of f**king money to get into that seat,’ Quentin added on theater-goers, via Deadline. ‘There’s no f**king taping it, there’s no cell phone, you own the audience for that time.
‘They are all yours, they are in the palm of your hand. It’s not just about doing art, it’s about wowing them, it’s about giving them a great night out. This to me is f**king existing. It’s the last frontier.’
All eyes have been on the filmmaker to release his 10th movie, which he previously suggested could be his final project.
However, elsewhere in the talk, he shared that he wants to wait until his four-year-old son is ‘at least six’ before taking time away to get started on another movie.
Quentin’s last film came in 2019, with Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – starring a string of the biggest names in the industry, led by Leonardo, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.
It follows the story of actor Rick Dalton (Leo) and his stunt double Cliff (Brad) as they navigate the changing culture of Hollywood in the 60s, struggling to claim their place in the industry.
Margot stars as the struggling star’s neighbor, Sharon Stone, while Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Sydney Sweeney, Luke Perry, Kurt Russell, Damian Lewis, Al Pacino and Timothy Olyphant are just some of the other famous faces who appeared in the final cut.
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