Christopher Nolan Praised For His Take On Quentin Tarantino’s Unpopular Self-Imposed 10-Movie Limit

While director Quentin Tarantino has given himself the idea that his tenth movie will be his last, Christopher Nolan takes a different approach: every movie will be his last.

During his press tour for his new movie The Odyssey, hitting theaters on Friday, July 17, Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan was asked about Quentin Tarantino’s oft-discussed and self-imposed ten movie limit. Tarantino’s argument is essentially that directors have shelf lives and he wants to go out at the peak of his powers and not as a fading force.

Thus far, Tarantino has directed Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & Kill Bill Vol 2. (counted as one film), Deathproof, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Director Quentin Tarantino’s suggestion he’s limiting himself to directing ten movies in a “dangerous” way to look at filmmaking

That’s nine movies, and according to past comments from Tarantino, his tenth will be his last. Nolan, however, believes that is a “dangerous” approach.

“I think it’s dangerous to look at it that specifically. I mean, Quentin has his reasons, and I respect those enormously. But I’m hoping that he won’t stay true to them,” Nolan said in an interview with The Telegraph.

“Every film that I do is the last I’ll ever make — and one day I will be right. So every time I want to put everything into the project at hand. I’m never thinking, ‘Well, I’ll save this for the next one.’ I don’t ever want to think like that. I want each movie to be everything.”

Tarantino’s 10-movie limit has been challenged by both his colleagues like Nolan and fans of his movies, arguing that his obsession with cinema history and having certain body of work is inhibiting him from adding potentially valued works to that legacy.

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It’s also been used to mock Tarantino, with the suggestion being that if he was going to have a career-capping film, then it very clearly should have been 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — his ninth and most recent movie.