Quentin Tarantino Plans To Retire After His Tenth Film, Hopes 'Hateful Eight' Will "Stop The Momentum" Of Digital

As Quentin Tarantino gears up his eighth film, "The Hateful Eight," he's got a lot to think about. There's the sprawling cast, the plans to shoot and project the film in 70mm, and the fact that production is beginning next month. But he's also got his eye on a longer term goal — retirement — and he's got a plan. 

“I don’t believe you should stay on stage until people are begging you to get off,” he told distributors at AFM (via Deadline). “I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do think directing is a young man’s game and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie. I’m not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I’m still hard…I like that I will leave a ten-film filmography, and so I’ve got two more to go after this. It’s not etched in stone, but that is the plan. If I get to the tenth, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career. If,...