Why is Quentin Tarantino only making 10 movies?

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Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, initially said in 2009 that he planned to retire once he reached the age of 60 – which he did on March 27 this year – to “go and write novels and cinema literature, stuff like that”.He reiterated that desire in 2014 during an event to promote his 2015 film The Hateful Eight (saying his post-retirement days would consist of “writing plays and books, going gracefully into my tender years”), before then outlining his 10-movies-and-out plan.“I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography, and so I’ve got two more to go after this,” he said (via Deadline). “It’s not etched in stone, but that is the plan.

If I get to the tenth, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well, that sounds like a good way to end the old career. If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won’t not do it just because I said I wouldn’t.

But 10 and done, leaving them wanting more — that sounds right.”News has emerged in the past few weeks of Tarantino’s tenth feature film The Movie Critic, which will begin filming in LA in the autumn.

Could this upcoming movie, then, serve as Tarantino’s swansong?His list of directed features, which currently spans from 1992 to 2019, includes 10 individual movies: Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), Death Proof (2007), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Django Unchained (2012), The Hateful Eight (2015) and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019).Tarantino and many of his fans, however, count Kill Bill volumes one and two as one movie (especially as he subsequently fulfilled his original intention of combining the two volumes into a single film), which reduces his overall number of directed features to.