Tarantino: From Criminal to Hateful – All Facets of the Director

“When I work on a film, I want it to become everything to me; I want to be ready to die for it.” Quentin Tarantino’s name is known to everyone without exaggeration. Some know him as the most talented creator of “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs”; others have heard that the best part of his films (in all of cinema) is the dialogue; someone has been told that he is the very man who killed Hitler and set Django free. Reservoir Dogs. Pulp Fiction. Kill Bill. Inglourious Basterds. Django Unchained—could a guy working in a movie theater and spending all his time watching films possibly imagine that years later he would make movies millions of viewers and critics would love? Did he think each new film would become a sensation, and that he himself would become a respected member of the film community? Unlikely—the young Quentin Tarantino, driven by the desire to make movies, simply grabbed a camera and made one. And then another. And one more.

This book is a unique chronicle of the director’s creative life, describing his path from his first short film shot with an amateur camera to today’s latest “The Hateful Eight.”