Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs premiered at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, launching the career of the most influential director of his generation.
Tarantino had workshopped the Tim Roth and Eddie Bunker-starring flick in Sundance’s Directors Labs before it hit the screen.
He showed up Monday evening in a surprise sit-down as of the 2025 iteration of the Robert Redford festival.
“If you’re wondering what I’m doing right now, I’m writing a play, and it’s going to be probably the next thing I end up doing,” he said. “If it’s a fiasco I probably won’t turn it into a movie. But if it’s a smash hit? It might be my last movie.”
How necessary is Tarantino’s voice in the current movie landscape:
“That’s a big fucking deal pulling [a play] off, and I don’t know if I can. So here we go. That’s a challenge, a genuine challenge, but making movies? Well, what the fuck is a movie now? What. something that plays in theaters for a token release for four fucking weeks? All right, and by the second week you can watch it on television. I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ’97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last fucking year of movies. That was a shit deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? And that it’s just it’s a show, pony exercise. Now the theatrical release, you know, and then like yeah, in two weeks, you can watch it on this streamer and that one. Okay. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.”
