--- title: Movies: Quentin Tarantino Reveals Plan to Retire After Film No. 10 description: The Kill Bill director said the next two films after his latest release may well be his last canonical: https://time.com/3580011/quentin-tarantino-retire-movie-10-hateful-eight/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-12T05:24:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:22:40.427Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Tarantino Talks Retirement og:description: Director says his 10th film may be his last og:url: https://time.com/3580011/quentin-tarantino-retire-movie-10-hateful-eight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5cf1f6e254b052ec/6987684dcd1bba17206f377c/rtr3qosf.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Director Quentin Tarantino arrives to attend the closing ceremony of the 67th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tarantino Talks Retirement twitter:description: Director says his 10th film may be his last twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5cf1f6e254b052ec/6987684dcd1bba17206f377c/rtr3qosf.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Quentin Tarantino Reveals Plan to Retire After Movie No. 10 by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Nov 12, 2014 5:24 AM UTC  Director Quentin Tarantino reacts as he arrives to attend the closing ceremony of the 67th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 24, 2014. Director Quentin Tarantino reacts as he arrives to attend the closing ceremony of the 67th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 24, 2014.Yves Herman—Reuters by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Nov 12, 2014 5:24 AM UTC Quentin Tarantino [revealed](http://deadline.com/2014/11/quentin-tarantino-retirement-hateful-eight-international-release-1201280583/) this week that he plans to call it quits after making his 10th film. “It’s not etched in stone, but that is the plan,” the director of cult classics such as _Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction_ and _Kill Bill_ told an audience at the American Film Market conference in Santa Monica, according to _Deadline_. “If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career.” The filmmaker was at a session with the cast-members of his latest release, a Western called _The Hateful Eight_. The film, which centers around a group of outlaws stranded in a blizzard, also happens to be his eighth. “I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography,” he said, “and so I’ve got two more to go after this.” [Read more at _Deadline_](http://deadline.com/2014/11/quentin-tarantino-retirement-hateful-eight-international-release-1201280583/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3580011/quentin-tarantino-retire-movie-10-hateful-eight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3580011/quentin-tarantino-retire-movie-10-hateful-eight/"},"headline":"Quentin Tarantino Reveals Plan to Retire After Movie No. 10","datePublished":"2014-11-12T05:24:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:22:40.427Z","description":"The Kill Bill director said the next two films after his latest release may well be his last","url":"https://time.com/3580011/quentin-tarantino-retire-movie-10-hateful-eight/","keywords":["movies","quentin tarantino","Retirement"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5cf1f6e254b052ec/6987684dcd1bba17206f377c/rtr3qosf.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5cf1f6e254b052ec/6987684dcd1bba17206f377c/rtr3qosf.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Director Quentin Tarantino arrives to attend the closing ceremony of the 67th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes","caption":"Director Quentin Tarantino arrives to attend the closing ceremony of the 67th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes","creditText":"Yves Herman—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3580011/quentin-tarantino-retire-movie-10-hateful-eight/","name":"Quentin Tarantino Reveals Plan to Retire After Movie No. 10"}}]}] ```