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Quentin Tarantino flew from Israel to Utah this week to speak at Sundance Film Festival.
The 61-year-old renowned filmmaker joined film critic Elvis Mitchell in a conversation about his career, sharing when he plans to start his next movie.
When Mitchell asked the Reservoir Dogs director why he's turned his focus to writing over the last several years, Tarantino pointed to fatherhood.
'I’m in no hurry to actually jump into production,' he answered. 'I’ve been doing that for 30 years. Next month my son turns five, and I have a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
'When I’m in America, I’m writing. When I’m in Israel I’m an abba, which is Hebrew for father.'
Quentin shares son Leo, and his daughter, whose name has not been shared, with 41-year-old wife Daniella Tarantino.
Quentin Tarantino flew from Israel to Utah this week to speak at Sundance Film Festival
Tarantino revealed when he plans to begin working on his next movie; pictured in October
In conversation with Mitchell, he added that 'the idea of jumping on a voyage when they’re too young to understand it is not enticing to me,' per an account from Variety.
He elaborated, 'I kind of want to not do whatever movie I end up doing until my son is at least 6. That way he’ll know what’s going on, he’ll be there, and it will be a memory for the rest of his life.'
And he gushed about his daughter, '[She] is already such a genius, she’ll just get it.'
His wife later took to Instagram and shared a snippet of his statement with her 55,000 followers, writing in the caption: 'Family man.'
'I'm really just kind of enjoying being a man of letters right now,' the Oscar-winning writer said elsewhere in the chat.
Although he's not currently involved in movie production, Tarantino is keeping busy in another way.
He told the Sundance audience, 'If you’re wondering what I’m doing right now, I’m writing a play, and it’s going to be probably the next thing I end up doing.'
'If it’s a fiasco I probably won’t turn it into a movie. But if it’s a smash hit? It might be my last movie,' he noted.
The 61-year-old renowned filmmaker joined film critic Elvis Mitchell in a conversation about his career
When Mitchell asked the Reservoir Dogs director why he's turned his focus to writing over the last several years, Tarantino pointed to fatherhood
Quentin shares son Leo, and his daughter, whose name has not been shared, with 41-year-old wife Daniella Tarantino; pictured in 2019
These days, given the theater-to-streamer pipeline of the movie industry, he referred to plays as the 'final frontier.'
In an impassioned rant, the longtime creative said, 'That’s a big f***ing deal, pulling [a play] off, and I don’t know if I can. So here we go.'
He mused, 'That’s a challenge, a genuine challenge, but making movies? Well, what the f**k is a movie now? Something that plays in theaters for a token release for four f***ing weeks? All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns.'
The veteran filmmaker called 2019 — notably the year his film Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood was released — 'the last year of movies.'
He went on to say, 'I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last f***ing year of movies. That was a sh*t deal, as far as I was concerned.'
Quentin called the current model of film releases a 'show pony exercise,' adding, 'Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.'
