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It’s sadly the case that most directors tend to burn out, even the great ones, making films in the later years of their lives that can’t match the ones they made in their prime.
Quentin Tarantino has no intention of churning out duds in his 80s though and has reiterated his plan to retire after his 10th film (The Hateful Eight was his eighth).
"Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody, 'Match that shit,'" he joked at the Adobe Max creativity conference in San Diego this week.
It would indeed be a difficult oeuvre to match. Tarantino has previously suggested his ninth film will be a "Bonnie and Clyde-esque story set in 1930s Australia, though the premise of his tenth and final film remains a mystery.
Tarantino is very clear about the legacy he wants to leave behind; asked about how he personally defines success, he said at the conference: "Hopefully, the way I define success when I finish my career is that I'm considered one of the greatest filmmakers that ever lived. And going further, a great artist, not just filmmaker."
The auteur isn’t in a rush to finish his dectet of films, however, and is currently working on a historical, non-fiction project.
It’s about the year 1970, which Tarantino considers pivotal for cinema, and "could be a book, a documentary [or] a five-part podcast," he doesn’t know yet.
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