De Palma has encouraged and fostered the filmmaking careers of directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Mark Romanek and Keith Gordon.

The scene in Planet Terror has would-be rapist, " Rapist No. 1 " ( Quentin Tarantino ) order one-legged stripper " Cherry Darlin " ( Rose McGowan ) to get up off the floor and dance.

He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 15 ( Quentin Tarantino has provided contradictory information about this-elsewhere, he claimed he was 16 when he dropped out ), to attend an acting class full time at the James Best Theater Company in Toluca Lake.

Tarantino has had a number of collaborations with director Robert Rodriguez.

The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a spaghetti western set in America's Deep South ; Tarantino has called the proposed style " a southern ", stating that he wanted " to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies.

In recent years, Tarantino has used his Hollywood power to give smaller and foreign films more attention than they might have received otherwise.

Tarantino has been romantically linked with American actress Mira Sorvino, directors Allison Anders and Sofia Coppola, actress Julie Dreyfus and comedians Kathy Griffin and Margaret Cho.

However, Tarantino has stated that their relationship is strictly platonic.

Director Quentin Tarantino has admitted that the celebrated animation-action sequence in his 2003 film Kill Bill was inspired from the use of 2D animated sequences in from actor Kamal Hassan's Tamil film Aalavandhan

Tarantino has defended his use of the word, arguing that black audiences have an appreciation of his blaxploitation-influenced films that eludes some of his critics, and, indeed, that Jackie Brown, another oft-cited example, was primarily made for " black audiences ".

One of the few critics to praise the film was Roger Ebert, and in fact, the film's reputation has grown in recent years, with many noting its uncompromising vision as well as its anticipation of the violent black comedy which became famous in the works of such directors as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has expressed admiration for the film and has cited it as an influence on his 2009 war epic, Inglourious Basterds.

Quentin Tarantino has expressed interest in filming the trilogy.

Along his 40 year long career, Keitel has established a solid collaboration with some directors such as: Martin Scorsese ( 5 ), Paul Auster ( 3 ), Quentin Tarantino ( 3 ), James Toback ( 3 ), Jane Campion ( 2 ), Abel Ferrara ( 2 ), Brad Mirman ( 2 ), Manuel Pradal ( 2 ), Alan Rudolph ( 2 ), Ridley Scott ( 2 ), Jon Turteltaub ( 2 ), and Wayne Wang ( 2 ).

" Quentin Tarantino has stated that he enjoyed Showgirls, referring to it as the " only [...] other time in the last twenty years a major studio made a full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movie ", comparing it to Mandingo.

He also has worked with Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Jim Jarmusch, Robert Rodriguez, and Michael Bay on various occasions.

Johnson has a supporting role in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film, Django Unchained, as a southern plantation owner named Spencer ' Big Daddy ' Bennett.

Quentin Tarantino has said that The Killing was a significant influence in Reservoir Dogs.

In 1998, The Beyond was re-released to theaters by Quentin Tarantino, who has often cited the film, and Fulci himself, as a major source of inspiration.

Two brothers Seth ( George Clooney ) and Richard " Richie " Gecko ( Quentin Tarantino ), wanted by the FBI and Texas police for a bank robbery that has left several people dead, stop at a liquor store with the intent of just picking up a state map, but the psychotic Richie kills Ranger Earl McGraw ( Michael Parks ) and the cashier ( John Hawkes ) and burns the store down.

The film became Woo's stepping stone to make Hollywood films and has been a strong influence on many directors, including Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Johnnie To.

Roger Ebert celebrated the films, saying " Put the two parts together, and Tarantino has made a masterful saga that celebrates the martial arts genre while kidding it, loving it, and transcending it ....

Jones has interviewed a variety of newsworthy guests including Dave Navarro, Mark Wahlberg, Brian Stever, The Cult, Tom Cruise, Feist, Tori Spelling, Nelly Furtado, Weird Al Yankovic, Trailer Park Boys, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Quentin Tarantino.

Film director Quentin Tarantino used " Across 110th Street " ( which, in a different version, had been the title song of the 1972 movie ) in the opening and closing sequences of his 1997 film Jackie Brown.

Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema's first female action star.

A Band Apart Films was a production company created by Quentin Tarantino and Lawrence Bender, which has been active since 1991.

* The gangster aspect of Performance has been imitated by many popular directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie and Jonathan Glazer.

However, Tarantino has been quoted as saying that Kaante is his favorite among the many rip-offs of his film.

Quentin Tarantino has long been a fan of Liu, and had one day hoped to find him a role in one of his movies.

His writing has frequently been compared to that of Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, and the movies of Quentin Tarantino.

Quentin Tarantino used the process for the taxi ride sequence of Pulp Fiction, and James Cameron used rear projection for several special effects shots within Aliens, including the crash of the Dropship as well as for several important sequences in Terminator 2: Judgement Day such as the car escape from the mental hospital and the T-1000 hijacking the Police helicopter ; he has been described as one of the few people in Hollywood still able to understand and use process photography as an effective technique Also, the Austin Powers film series frequently used rear projection to help give it the feel of old spy movies, Natural Born Killers used the technique extensively throughout to emphasize characters ' subconscious motivations.

Upon his arrival in the Philippines, Tarantino was quoted in the local newspaper as saying, " I'm a big fan of RP ( Republic of the Philippines ) cinema.

Tarantino was quoted as saying, " The best collaborations are the director-editor teams, where they can finish each other's sentences " and that Menke was his " only, truly genuine collaborator.

" Quentin Tarantino was quoted in Empire as follows: " Fandango is one of the best directorial debuts in the history of cinema.

When Tarantino was accused of copying the film without attribution, MTV quoted Tarantino as saying he was " dying to see the Hong Kong original.

Tarantino stated " I'm not saying that I'll never get married or have a kid before I'm 60.

However, Tarantino declined this rumor, reportedly saying " That's totally made up.

2 received positive reviews from film critics, with many praising its direction and saying Tarantino had matured as a filmmaker.

When the Paul Brothers, a pair of wealthy bodybuilders who wanted to get into the movies, offered Tarantino funding for his script Natural Born Killers on the condition he include a scene featuring them, he could not write it out of disgust, and asked Avary to write it as a favor.

When the third filmmaker never materialized, Tarantino and Avary took their respective stories and expanded them into full length screenplays separately.

When the store clerk on duty said no, as the manager was not present at the time, Tarantino offered double the retail price of the CD and acquired it.

When Madonna met Quentin Tarantino at a party, after the film was released, she gave him an autographed copy of her Erotica album, signing " Quentin: it's about love, not dick ".