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Legendary writer and director Quentin Tarantino recently analyzed his own filmography, detailing which he believes is his favorite, his best, and the movie he was “born to make.” Surprisingly, Pulp Fiction was not one of the movies he named.
According to Quentin Tarantino’s assessment of his work, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his favorite movie that he’s made, Inglourious Basterds is his “best” and “masterpiece,” and Kill Bill was the movie he was born to make.
Tarantino notably did not mention Pulp Fiction, his generation-defining 1994 film that’s widely considered to be one of the greatest American movies ever made.
Quentin Tarantino says Kill Bill is the movie he was born to make
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is my favorite, Inglourious Basterds is my best. But I think Kill Bill is the ultimate Quentin movie, like nobody else could’ve made it,” Tarantino said during an interview on The Church of Tarantino podcast.
“Every aspect about it is so particularly ripped, like with tentacles and bloody tissue, from my imagination and my id and my loves and my passion and my obsession. So I think Kill Bill is the movie I was born to make, I think Inglourious Basterds is my masterpiece, but Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is my favorite.”
Tarantino’s commment about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are particularly intersesting, as it gives creedence to a fan theory that the director wishes his 2019 film was his tenth and final movie — a self-imposed filmography limit that has seemingly left the acclaimed director overthinking his next move.
Take The Adventures of Cliff Booth, the upcoming Brad Pitt-starring Once Upon a Time in Hollywood prequel, which Tarantino wrote but isn’t directing, instead passing the script to David Fincher. And, honestly, why? Just DIRECT, man. You’re a director. And you’re also the only one who cares about this ridiculous 10-movie cap.