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.

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

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.

Rodriguez, Tarantino and Bender defended this choice because it made for a more team-like atmosphere on the set instead of people having to stick to their certified jobs.

His directorial style and the use of natural, conversational dialogue in his films were cited a major influence on many noted filmmakers, including Robert Altman, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.

Dick Dale's surf rock version later gained renewed popularity through its use in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction and again through its sampling in The Black Eyed Peas song " Pump It " ( 2006 ).

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 is an Italian word meaning " originating from Taranto ", the town in Apulia, south Italy.

Kulhánek's narrative style is swift with lots of black humour and naturalistic descriptions of violence and is sometimes compared to the style of Quentin Tarantino.

She is best known to Western audiences for her appearances in the Quentin Tarantino films " Kill Bill Volume 1 " and " Inglourious Basterds " where she played Sofie Fatale and Francesca Mondino respectively.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

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

In addition, Tarantino retaliated on The Howard Stern Show by stating Lee would have to " stand on a chair to kiss my ass.

Additional filmmakers who have noted Peckinpah's influence have included Paul Schrader, Walter Hill, Nicolas Winding Refn, John Milius, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Mann, Takeshi Kitano and Park Chan-wook.

Directors Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer Madonna have publicly stated they are fans of the series.

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who was also in attendance, confessed in a 1992 interview, " After I saw Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at Cannes, David Lynch had disappeared so far up his own ass that I have no desire to see another David Lynch movie until I hear something different.

Directors Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright have both gone on record as stating that they liked the film.

Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " B " rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, " Rodriguez and Tarantino have taken the let -' em-eat-trash cynicism of modern corporate moviemaking and repackaged it as junk-conscious ' attitude.

Cinefantastique magazine's Steve Biodrowski wrote, " Whereas one might reasonably have expected that the combo of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez would yield a critical mass of nuclear proportions, instead of an atomic fireball's worth of entertainment, we get a long fuse, quite a bit of fizzle, and a rather minor blast ".

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

Some of these have included: premiering the North American Man / Boy Love Association ( NAMBLA ) documentary, Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys, in 1994 ; premiering a film in 1995 that accused Quentin Tarantino of plagiarism ; being protested by Reverend Fred Phelps in 2002 ( apparently for not choosing to show a film about Phelps ); and premiering a theatrical version of Brad Neely's Harry Potter parody Wizard People, Dear Reader, which eventually led to action by Warner Brothers to suppress future theatrical performances of the work.

Similarly Big Kahuna Burger fast food franchises have received at least a passing mention in several Quentin Tarantino movies.