Quentin Tarantino is an American filmmaker and actor known for his self-aware film style that often references and samples various B-movie genres and popular culture influences. Often structuring his films with nonlinear storytelling and ensemble casts, Quentin Tarantino’s films are known to effortlessly blend on-screen violence and suspense with casual dialogue and comedic tones.

Tarantino saw his first success as an independent filmmaker with the release of the crime drama, Reservoir Dogs (1992), that was then followed by the globally popular Pulp Fiction (1994). Tarantino’s films have gone on to explore various other film genres from blaxploitation with Jackie Brown (1997), kung fu with Kill Bill 1 & 2 (2003-04), war dramas with Inglourious Basterds (2009), and westerns with Django Unchained (2012) and Hateful Eight (2015).