
Ace filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is taking it slow and wants to savour filmmaking.
At the Sundance Film Festival, when he was asked about making his final film, which he’d spoken about for years, he said that he is currently a dad and wants his son to have core memories from a film set.
Tarantino said, “I’m in no hurry to actually jump into production. I’ve been doing that for 30 years. Next month my son turns 5, 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 means father.”
The Once Upon A Time In Hollywooddirector juggles his time between America and Israel and loves being a dad. At the Sundance Festival, Tarantino made a special visit and flew down specially from Utah for a conversation with film critic Elvis Mitchell who is also an academic and popular host. Mitchell hosted a weekend of cinema talks on Park City’s Main Street (“The Elvis Suite”), including chats with Bill Murray.
In the conversation, Quentin Tarantino also mentioned, “The idea of jumping on a voyage when they’re too young to understand it is not enticing to me. 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.”
His daughter, he said, “is already such a genius, she’ll just get it.”
He added, “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.”