Quentin Tarantino
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Born March 27th, 1963, director/screenwriter/actor/producer Quentin Tarantino was perhaps the most distinctive and volatile talent to emerge in American film in the early '90s. Unlike the previous generation of American filmmakers, Tarantino learned his craft from his days as a video clerk rather than as a film-school student. Consequently, he developed an audacious fusion of pop culture and independent arthouse cinema; his films were thrillers that were distinguished as much by their clever, twisting dialogue as their outbursts of extreme violence. Tarantino initially began his career as an actor (his biggest role was as an Elvis impersonator on an episode of The Golden Girls), taking classes while he was working at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, CA. During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first, True Romance, in 1987. With his co-worker, Roger Avary (who would later also become a director), Tarantino tried to get financial backing to film the script. After years of negotiations, he decided to sell the script, which wound up in the hands of director Tony Scott. During this time, Tarantino wrote the screenplay for Natural Born Killers. Again, he was unable to come up with enough investors to make a movie and gave the script to his partner, Rand Vossler. Tarantino then used the money he made from True Romance to begin pre-production on Reservoir Dogs, a film about a failed heist. Reservoir Dogs received financial backing from LIVE Entertainment after Harvey Keitel agreed to star in the movie. Word-of-mouth on Reservoir Dogs began to build at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, which led to scores of glowing reviews, making the film a cult hit. While many critics and fans were praising Tarantino, he developed a sizable number of detractors. Claiming he ripped off the obscure Hong Kong thriller City on Fire, the critics only added to the director/writer's already considerable buzz. During 1993, Tarantino wrote and directed his next feature, Pulp Fiction, which featured three interweaving crime storylines; Tony Scott's big-budget production of True Romance was also released that year. In 1994, Tarantino was elevated from a cult figure to a major celebrity. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that May, beginning the flood of good reviews for the picture. Before Pulp Fiction was released in October, Oliver Stone's bombastic version of Natural Born Killers hit the theaters in August; Tarantino distanced himself from the film and was only credited for writing the basic story. Pulp Fiction soon eclipsed Natural Born Killers in both acclaim and popularity. Made for eight million dollars, the film eventually grossed over 100 million dollars and topped many critics' top ten lists. Pulp Fiction earned seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino and Avary), Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson), and Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman); it won one, for Tarantino and Avery's writing.After the film's success, Tarantino was everywhere, from talk shows to a cameo in the low-budget Sleep With Me. At the beginning of 1995, he directed a segment of the anthology film Four Rooms and acted in Robert Rodriguez's sequel to El Mariachi, Desperado, and the comedy Destiny Turns on the Radio, in which he had a starring role. Tarantino also kept busy with television, directing an episode of the NBC TV hit ER and appearing in Margaret Cho's sitcom All-American Girl.The latter half of the '90s saw Tarantino continue his multifaceted role as an actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. In 1996, he served as the screenwriter and executive producer for the George Clooney schlock-fest From Dusk Till Dawn, and the following year renewed some of his earlier acclaim as the director and screenwriter of Jackie Brown. The film, in which Tarantino had a voice-over cameo, reunited him wi
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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88% | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael |
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86% | Friedkin Uncut |
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85% | Once Upon a Time In Hollywood |
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No Score Yet | 21 Years: Quentin Tarantino |
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— | 2016 |
74% | The Hateful Eight |
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$54.2M | 2015 |
44% | She's Funny That Way |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Dance Me To The End Of Love |
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— | 2013 |
87% | Django Unchained |
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$162.9M | 2012 |
92% | Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel |
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$7.5k | 2011 |
89% | Inglourious Basterds |
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$120.6M | 2009 |
29% | Killshot |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient |
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— | 2008 |
56% | Sukiyaki Western Django |
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10% | Hell Ride |
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$0.2M | 2008 |
95% | Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Fúria pela Liberdade |
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No Score Yet | Fantastic Flesh |
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62% | Diary of the Dead |
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$0.7M | 2007 |
76% | Planet Terror (Grindhouse Presents: Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror) |
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— | 2007 |
44% | Hostel Part II |
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$17.6M | 2007 |
84% | Grindhouse |
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$25M | 2007 |
65% | Death Proof |
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No Score Yet | The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing |
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— | 2006 |
61% | Hostel |
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$47.3M | 2006 |
7% | Daltry Calhoun |
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— | 2005 |
30% | The Muppets' Wizard of Oz |
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— | 2005 |
97% | Double Dare |
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— | 2005 |
77% | Sin City |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Planet of the Pitts |
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— | 2004 |
100% | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure |
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— | 2004 |
84% | Kill Bill: Volume 2 |
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— | 2004 |
85% | Kill Bill: Volume 1 |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Baadasssss Cinema |
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— | 2001 |
22% | Little Nicky |
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$38.6M | 2000 |
22% | From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter |
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— | 2000 |
9% | From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Saturday Night Live - Game Show Parodies |
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— | 1999 |
86% | God Said 'Ha!' |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's |
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— | 1997 |
87% | Jackie Brown |
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— | 1997 |
88% | Full Tilt Boogie |
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— | 1997 |
13% | Four Rooms |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Somebody to Love |
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— | 1996 |
17% | Curdled |
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— | 1996 |
33% | Girl 6 |
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— | 1996 |
62% | From Dusk Till Dawn |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Kisses in the Dark |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | The Typewriter, The Rifle and the Movie Camera |
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— | 1996 |
88% | Crimson Tide |
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— | 1995 |
17% | Destiny Turns on the Radio |
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— | 1995 |
21% | Sleep with Me |
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— | 1994 |
92% | Pulp Fiction |
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— | 1994 |
36% | Killing Zoe |
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— | 1994 |
93% | True Romance |
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— | 1993 |
92% | Reservoir Dogs |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | My Best Friend's Birthday |
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Eli Roth's History of Horror
2018
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show
2007
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No Score Yet |
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
2014-2016
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Big Interview With Dan Rather
2013
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Director's Chair
2014-2015
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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68% |
American Idol
2002-2016
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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85% |
Alias
2001-2006
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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The Golden Girls
1985-1992
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Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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Quotes from Quentin Tarantino's Characters
Santanico Pandemonium: | Welcome to slavery |
Richard Gecko: | No thanks, I already had a wife |
Rapist: | You give me wood, now I give you some fucking wood! |
Mr. Brown: | Let me tell you what "Like a Virgin" is about. It's all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The entire song. It's a metaphor for big dicks. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | No, no. It's about a girl who is very vulnerable. She's been fucked over a few times. Then she meets some guy who's really sensitive... |
Mr. Brown: | Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... Time out Greenbay. Tell that fucking bullshit to the tourists. |
Joe Cabot: | Toby... Who the fuck is Toby? Toby... |
Mr. Brown: | "Like a Virgin" is not about this sensitive girl who meets a nice fella. That's what "True Blue" is about, now, granted, no argument about that. |
Mr. Orange/Freddy: | Which one is "True Blue"? |
Nice Guy Eddie: | "True Blue" was a big ass hit for Madonna. I don't even follow this Tops In Pops shit, and I've at least heard of "True Blue". |
Mr. Orange/Freddy: | Look, asshole, I didn't say I ain't heard of it. All I asked was how does it go? Excuse me for not being the world's biggest Madonna fan. |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | Personally, I can do without her. |
Mr. Blue: | I like her early stuff. You know, "Lucky Star", "Borderline" - but once she got into her "Papa Don't Preach" phase, I don't know, I tuned out. |
Mr. Brown: | Hey, you guys are making me lose my... train of thought here. I was saying something, what was it? |
Joe Cabot: | Oh, Toby was this Chinese girl, what was her last name? |
Mr. White/Larry: | What's that? |
Joe Cabot: | I found this old address book in a jacket I ain't worn in a coon's age. What was that name? |
Mr. Brown: | What the fuck was I talking about? |
Mr. Pink: | You said "True Blue" was about a nice girl, a sensitive girl who meets a nice guy, and that "Like a Virgin" was a metaphor for big dicks. |
Mr. Brown: | Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick. |
Mr. Blue: | How many dicks is that? |
Mr. White/Larry: | A lot. |
Mr. Brown: | Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in "The Great Escape", he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain. |
Joe Cabot: | Chew? Toby Chew? |
Mr. Blonde/Vic Vega: | It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know, her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence - "Like a Virgin". |
Joe Cabot: | Wong? |
LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee: | Shut up black! |
LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee: | Oh I'mma go walkin in the moonlight wit you... |
Billy Crash: | Oh, I'ma go walkin' in the moonlight with you! |
Django: | U wanna hold my hand? |
Django: | You wanna hold my hand? |
Mr. Pink: | Do they have a sheet on you where you're from? |
Mr. White/Larry: | Yeah |
Mr. White/Larry: | Yeah. |
Mr. Brown: | Well that's that then man. I mean Jesus Christ, I was worried about mugshot possibilities as it was. Now he knows A. Your name, B. What you look like, C. Where you're from and D. What your specialty is. |
Richard Gecko: | That's what I call a show! |
Kate Fuller: | Richie,would you me a favor and eat my pussy for me? Please? |
Kate Fuller: | Richie, would you me a favor and eat my pussy for me? Please? |
Richard Gecko: | Uhhh,sure... |
Richard Gecko: | Uhhh, sure... |
Kate Fuller: | What's, um, goin' on? |
Richard Gecko: | We're having a wet bikini contest, and you just won. |
Mr. Brown: | [after Joe assigns names] Yeah, yeah, but "Mr. Brown"? That's little too close to "Mr. Shit". |
Mr. Brown: | [after Joe assigns names] Yeah, yeah, but 'Mr. Brown'? That's little too close to "Mr. Shit". |
Mr. Pink: | Yeah, "Mr. Pink" sounds like "Mr. Pussy". Tell you what, let me be Mr. Purple. That sounds good to me. I'm Mr. Purple. |
Mr. Pink: | Yeah, 'Mr. Pink' sounds like 'Mr. Pussy'. Tell you what, let me be Mr. Purple. That sounds good to me. I'm Mr. Purple. |
Joe Cabot: | You're *not* Mr. Purple. Somebody from another job's Mr. Purple. You're Mr. Pink! |
Richard Gecko: | Ramblers' let's get to rambling! |
Jimmie Dimmick: | "Wow, you would never think it's the same car!...." |
Jimmie Dimmick: | Wow, you would never think it's the same car! |
The Wolf: | "Okay, lets not start sucking each other's dick just yet......." |
The Wolf: | Okay, lets not start sucking each other's dick just yet. |
Jimmie Dimmick: | "You don't have to tell me how good my coffee is okay, I'm the one who buys it, I know how good it is......" |
Jimmie Dimmick: | You don't have to tell me how good my coffee is okay, I'm the one who buys it, I know how good it is... |
Mr. Pink: | And why am I Mr. Pink? |
Joe Cabot: | Because you're a faggot, alright?! |
Mr. Pink: | Why can't we pick our own colors? |
Joe Cabot: | No way, no way. I tried it once and it doesn't work. You get four guys, all fighting over who is going to be Mr. Black. But they don't know each other, so no one wants to back down. No way! I pick! You're Mr. Pink. Be thankful you're not Mr. Yellow. |
Mr. Brown: | Yeah, but Mr. Brown, that's a little too close to Mr. Shit. |
Mr. Pink: | And Mr. Pink sounds like Mr. Pussy! How about Mr. Purple? That sounds good to me, I'll be Mr. Purple. |
Joe Cabot: | You're not Mr. Purple. Some guy on some other job is Mr. Purple! You're Mr. Pink! |
Mr. White/Larry: | Who cares what your name is? |
Mr. Pink: | Yeah, that's easy for you to say: you're Mr. White. You have a cool sounding name. Look if it's no big deal for you to be Mr. Pink you wanna trade? |
Joe Cabot: | Hey, nobody's trading with anybody. This ain't a goddamn city counsel meeting you know. Now listen up Mr. Pink. There is two ways you can go on the job: my way or the highway. Now what's it gonna be Mr. Pink? |
Mr. Pink: | Jesus Christ Joe, forget about it. It's beneath me you know. I'm Mr. Pink. Let's move on. |
Mr. Brown: | Dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick. |
Jimmie Dimmick: | When you drove up did you notice a sign on my house that says dead nigger storage? |
Jimmie Dimmick: | "do you know what's gonna happen if Bonnie comes home and finds a dead nigger in our garage"? " We are gonna get a DIVORCE!" "No counseling, no trial separation, A DIVORCE!" |
Jimmie Dimmick: | We are gonna get a DIVORCE! No counseling, no trial separation, A DIVORCE! |
Warren: | Chartreuse! The only liquor so good, they named a color after it. |
Warren: | Chartreuse, the only liqueur so good they named a color after it. |
Pam: | Hey Warren, who is this guy? |
Warren: | Stuntman Mike. |
Pam: | And who the hell is Stuntman Mike? |
Warren: | He's a stuntman. |
Warren: | Is that a tasty beverage or is that a tasty beverage? |
Warren: | Is that a tasty beverage or is that a tasty be-ve-rage? |
Pick-up Guy: | Is that goin' on right now? |
Mr. Brown: | Yeah, yeah, but "Mr. Brown"? Thats little too close to "Mr. Shit". |
Mr. Brown: | Yeah, yeah, but 'Mr. Brown'? Thats little too close to 'Mr. Shit'. |
Kate Fuller: | Where are you taking us? |
Richard Gecko: | Mexico. |
Kate Fuller: | What's in Mexico? |
Richard Gecko: | Mexicans. |
Jimmie Dimmick: | If Bonnie comes home, and finds a dead body here i'm gonna get divorced. Ok, No marriage counselling, no trial separation, I'm gonna get fucking divorced. |