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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The second script that Tarantino sold was Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone.

Tarantino was given story credit, and wished the film well.

Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino was approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including Speed and Men in Black.

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.

" On February 18, 2010, it was announced that Tarantino had bought the New Beverly Cinema.

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.

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.

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 ".

According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, actor Denzel Washington also confronted Tarantino on his usage of racial slurs in his pictures, but mentioned that Tarantino was a " fine artist.

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.

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 ).

" Abdul said that she reminded her of " a young Gladys Knight " after she performed the Garth Brooks song " Ain't Goin ' Down (' Til the Sun Comes Up )," Nickolas Ashford of famed soul duo Ashford & Simpson called her performance of " Ooo Baby Baby " by Smokey Robinson as " beautiful " and full of " sex appeal ," Famed film director Quentin Tarantino called her a " powerhouse " after her performance of " Somewhere " from the musical West Side Story, and Cowell announced her as " the best singer in the competition " after she sang " All the Time " by Barry Manilow and gave her " a ten out of ten " for her performance of " Don't Rain on My Parade ," which also garnered standing ovations from Abdul and Jackson.

Quentin Tarantino cited Cabin Fever as the best new American film in his Premiere magazine interview for Kill Bill Vol.

To has also earned the admiration of foreign filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, who called To's 2005 film Election " the best film of the year ".

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.

Roth and cowriter Jeff Rendell won a 2007 Spike TV Scream Award for best " screamplay " for their writing in Grindhouse, sharing the honor with Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Rob Zombie and Edgar Wright.

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.

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

In the aforementioned Il Fatto Quotidiano interview of 2010, Quentin Tarantino hailed Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark as " the best book on films ever written.

Horror author Stephen King voted The Devil's Rejects the 9th best movie of 2005 and wrote, " No redeeming social merit, perfect ' 70s C-grade picture cheesy glow ; this must be what Quentin Tarantino meant when he did those silly Kill Bill pictures ".

Baltz is best known for his role as Marvin Nash, an LAPD police officer in the famous torture scene of the 1992 Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs.

Interviewed on the set of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino told John Travolta it was the best show about movies on television.

Judy, also known as Girl 6 ( Theresa Randle ), is at a very awkward audition with Quentin Tarantino.

Their most well known song, " Goodnight Moon ", was featured in Seasons 3 and 6 of the television series Dawson's Creek and played over the closing credits of the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill: Volume 2.

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.

* Best Original Screenplay – Richard Curtis ( lost to Quentin Tarantino for Pulp Fiction )

* Best Original Screenplay – Richard Curtis ( lost to Quentin Tarantino for Pulp Fiction )

* Best Screenplay – Richard Curtis ( lost to Quentin Tarantino for Pulp Fiction )

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

He appeared in and wrote the script for Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn, which saw mixed reviews from the critics yet led to two sequels, for which Tarantino and Rodriguez would only serve as executive producers.

Tarantino then went on to be credited as " Special Guest Director " in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro.

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 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!

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

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

He did this not only for Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, but also Ridley Scott ( The Duellists ), Paul Schrader ( Blue Collar ), James Toback ( Fingers ), and Tony Bui ( Three Seasons ).

The film was selected by Quentin Tarantino for the first Quentin Tarantino Film Fest in Austin, Texas, 1996.

Then he came to public attention for playing Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino ’ s 1992 film, Reservoir Dogs, a role that Tarantino wrote for himself.

Before that he had worked on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, the latter of which earned both him and Quentin Tarantino an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards.

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.