If Quentin Tarantino remains committed to retiring from filmmaking after his 10th feature film, then whatever movie the Oscar winner decides to make next will be his swan song from the big screen. Christopher Nolan is disappointed.
“I think it’s dangerous to look at it that specifically,” Nolan recently told The Telegraph about Tarantino’s long-discussed 10-movie retirement plan. “I mean, Quentin has his reasons, and I respect those enormously. But I’m hoping that he won’t stay true to them… I view every film that I do as the last I’ll ever make, and one day I will be right. So every time I want to put everything into the project at hand. I’m never thinking, ‘Well, I’ll save this for the next one.’ I don’t ever want to think like that. I want each movie to be everything.”
Tarantino has spoken for years about his plan to retire after making 10 feature films (the “Kill Bill” movies count as one film in his eyes, as they were developed and shot as a single feature), saying he wants to leave behind a consistently strong and tightly curated body of work.
“And do you believe him?” Nolan asked the “ReelBlend” podcast hosts in 2023 while promoting “Oppenheimer.”
“Quentin’s point has always been that — and he never, very graciously, he’s never specific about the films he’s talking about or whatever — but he’s looking at some of the work done by filmmakers in later years and feeling that if it can’t live up to the heyday, it would be better if it didn’t exist,” Nolan explained at the time. “And I think that’s a very purist point of view. It’s the point of view of a cinephile who prizes film history.”
