Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino was born in Knoxvill, Tennessee March
27, 1963. Tarantino is
an American director and screenwriter, occasionally producer and actor. His
mother was very young, she was only 16 when she born Quentin. She was a student
of the nursing school. His father was 21 year old law student and aspiring
actor. Whole family moved to Los Angeles when he was 2 years old. When he was
eight his mother started taking him to watch movies such as Carnal Knowledge
(1971) and Deliverance (1972). When he started to work at video store he was
obsessed about watching movies. When he was 20 years old he begun acting
lessons. He also begun writing
scripts and in 1988 he wrote the screenplay for Natural Born Killers. After that in 1990 he wrote another one called
True Romance. Tarantino become famous as a director after releasing his first
movie called Reservoire Dogs which has its premier at Sundance Film Festival in
1992. Big success of the movie made that previous screenplays were immediately
picked up by Miramax for distribution. After that first success
Tarantino
started to write his next screenplay, Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction was released
in 1994 and as it turned out movie become Tarantino’s biggest success. Pulp
Fiction was nominated for seven Academy Awards and it won one for Best original
screenplay. As director he also received Golden Globe, a BAFTA award also for
screenplay and many other awards around the world including Golden Palm at the
Cannes Film Festival. After that success expectations were huge. In 1995
Tarantino decided to direct one fourth of movie Four Room. He made that movie
with three of his friends. Every chapter of this film was directed by someone
else. Unfortunately, it received weak
reviews… After that in 1996 he starred in movie “From Dusk till Dawn” directed
by Robert Rodriguez where he played with George Clooney. Tarantino’s third
movie was “Jackie Brown” released year after Rodriguez production. It was an
adaptation of novel Rum Punch, cast loaded with stars such as Samuel L.
Jackson, Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda. Already after 6 years of absence
Tarantino return to directing and writing with Kill Bill (2003), starring Uma
Thurman as a killer woman fighting for revenge. As a sequel Kill Bill 2
was released just after first part. At first Kill Bill was ment to be one movie
but with running time of over 4 hours it was split into two movies. After that
Tarantino worked with Robert Rodriguez once again. They made two parts of
Grindhouse in 2007. One of each directed by Tarantino and second one by
Rodriguez. In 2010 he received two more Academy Award nominations. 
For Tarantino, film is an all-consuming passion: "When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way ... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies," he says in the interview.
Some interesting interview with Quentin Tarantino after Django was released:
- Have you watched any of Quentin Tarantino movies?
- If yes how do you like them? If no go and watch them!
