Quentin Tarantino isn’t shy about ranking his own films and claims Kill Bill is “the ultimate Quentin movie.”
“Nobody else could’ve made it,” Tarantino, 62, said of the 2003 film starring Uma Thurman. “Every aspect about it is so particularly ripped, like with tentacles and bloody tissue, from my imagination and my id and my loves and my passion and my obsession. So I think Kill Bill is the movie I was born to make.”
While Kill Bill is his “ultimate” film, the Academy Award winner added that Inglourious Basterds is his “masterpiece,” and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his “favorite.”
“I think Inglourious Basterds is my best script, and I think Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood are right behind,” he explained during a recent appearance on the “The Church of Tarantino” podcast. “But, there’s an aspect of Hateful Eight that I actually think is probably my best directing of my material, i.e., the material is written and it’s solid. So it’s not like I have to create it, like Kill Bill, it’s solid, it’s right there and I actually think it’s my best servicing [of] my material as a director.”
Tarantino has been vocal about his desire to retire after directing his 10th film, saying during a 2021 interview on the “Pure Cinema” podcast, “Most directors have horrible last movies. Usually, their worst movies are their last movies.”
“So, to actually end your career on a decent movie is rare. To end it with, like, a good movie is kind of phenomenal,” he added. While his final film was set to be The Movie Critic.
“I wasn’t really excited about dramatizing what I wrote when I was in pre-production, partly because I’m using the skillset that I learned from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” he said, revealing that the project had been scrapped.
His final film remains unknown.
