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

Michael Winner, whilst appearing on an episode of Piers Morgan's Life Stories ( an ITV production ), stated that Quentin Tarantino was a " big fan " of Death Wish.

Quentin Tarantino stated that he preferred < nowiki > Hey Good Lookin '</ nowiki > to Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

" 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.

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

Quentin Tarantino stated that he preferred < nowiki > Hey Good Lookin '</ nowiki > to Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.

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

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.

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 ....

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.

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

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

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

" I don't know, Quentin Tarantino has never turned up here and they name the bar after him, it's my second visit and they haven't even named a toilet after me!

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.

Avary took on the producer's role, and he and Tarantino tried unsuccessfully for several years to get funding so that Tarantino could direct the script himself.

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.

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 ".

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 ).

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

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

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 ".

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.

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.

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.

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.

For example, before Quentin Tarantino's fourth film was released, his films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown were sometimes referred to as " the Quentin Tarantino trilogy ", although the stories of the three films hardly interconnected.

* In the director's cut of Natural Born Killers ( directed by Oliver Stone and written by Quentin Tarantino ) actor Woody Harrelson says the line: " Let's make a little music, Colorado ," before shooting Robert Downey Jr.

Quentin Tarantino directed six feature films before becoming a DGA member, in 2012.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, " True Romance, a vibrant, grisly, gleefully amoral road movie directed by Tony Scott and dominated by the machismo of Quentin Tarantino ( who wrote this screenplay before he directed Reservoir Dogs ), is sure to offend a good-sized segment of the moviegoing population.

According to Kill Bills director Quentin Tarantino, he discovered the music of the 5. 6. 7. 8's after hearing it in an urban clothing store in Tokyo, hours before going to the airport.

Adams points out that Bloodlust had many of the same obsessions as the oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino and he notes it was released 2 years before Reservoir Dogs.

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

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.

At this point Tarantino hits play on a cassette recorder and Nouvelle Vague's cover of " Too Drunk To Fuck " plays.

Jello, clearly disapproving of the situation, later wrote, " This is their lowest point since Levi's … This goes against everything the Dead Kennedys stands for in spades … The terrified woman later ' wins ' by killing Tarantino, but that excuse does not rescue this at all.

In 2007 American director Quentin Tarantino said " New Italian cinema is just depressing.

The 2007 film Grindhouse made by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez is presented as a 1970s exploitation film double feature.

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.

One of her recordings — a cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )" — was used to open the 2003 Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill: Vol.

Sinatra recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's ' Hip-Hop Literacy ' campaign, encouraging reading of Tarantino screenplays and related books.

* In the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino, the " basterds " are members of OSS, although no such OSS unit ever actually existed.

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor.

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino was an avid film fan.

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

Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician who was born in Queens, New York, and Connie McHugh, a nurse.

After Tarantino met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged him to write a screenplay.

Tarantino directed and co-wrote a movie called My Best Friend's Birthday in 1987.

It was also during the late 1980s that Tarantino collaborated on and starred in Dance Me To The End Of Love, a music video staring Tarantino and featuring the music of Leonard Cohen.

This music video was shot by long time Tarantino friend Rand Vossler.

Tarantino wrote the script in three and a half weeks and Bender forwarded it to director Monte Hellman.