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 been quoted as saying, " When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ' no, I went to films.

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.

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.

Tarantino said-during interview with De Palma, that Blow Out is one of his all time favourite films, and that after watching Scarface he knew how to make his own film.

Tarantino also frequently collaborates with his friend and fellow filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.

2 had an evening screening, while it was also shown on the morning of the final day in its original 3-hour-plus version, with Tarantino himself attending the full screening.

Among his producing credits are the horror film Hostel ( which included numerous references to his own Pulp Fiction ), the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot ( for which Tarantino was credited as an executive producer, although he was no longer associated with the film after its 2009 release.

In 2006, the latest " Quentin Tarantino presents " production, Hostel, opened at # 1 at the box office with a $ 20. 1 million opening weekend, good for 8th all time in January.

In addition, in 1995 Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with Miramax as a vehicle to release or re-release several independent and foreign features.

In 2009, in an interview for Italian TV, after being asked about the success of the two Kill Bill films, Tarantino said " You haven't asked me about the third one ", and implied that he would be making a third Kill Bill film with the words " The Bride will fight again!

Rodríguez went on to collaborate with Quentin Tarantino on the vampire thriller, From Dusk Till Dawn ( he co-produced two sequels ), and with Kevin Williamson on the horror film The Faculty.

Rodriguez wrote and directed the film Planet Terror for the collaboration with Quentin Tarantino in their double feature Grindhouse ( released in 2007 ).

In an interview, Tarantino told interviewer Samuel Blumenfeld, " Spielberg is doing something unheard of with the opening of this movie.

The aftermath of a robbery is shown, with abundance of lurid details, in Reservoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino.

A movie adaptation of Sin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller with " special guest director " Quentin Tarantino, was released on April 1, 2005.

They are best known for their hit " Scooby Snacks " which features samples from films by Quentin Tarantino, as well as the song " Love Unlimited ", which serves as a comical tribute to Barry White ( and shares its name with White's backing vocal group ).

The biggest hit, " Scooby Snacks ", features samples from films by Quentin Tarantino, interspersed with rap verses and a sung, anthemic, chorus.

Wright announced the release of a Region 1 Spaced DVD release on July 22, 2008, which included an all-new commentary with Wright, Pegg, and Stevenson, as well as special guests Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Bill Hader, Matt Stone, and Patton Oswalt.

Quentin Tarantino wrote a part in Reservoir Dogs with Woods in mind, but Woods ' agent rejected the script without showing it to the actor.

Since Tarantino was busy prepping Reservoir Dogs, Avary was hired with Tarantino's consent by Tony Scott and Hadida to work as a script doctor on the material, a job which included bringing the length down, reforming the narrative to a linear fashion, and writing a more commercial ending where the Clarence character is not killed.