Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he would love to tackle the gangster movie genre for his next film, adding that he feels his sense of humour wouldn't work in a horror setting.
The acclaimed director, whose eight feature film The Hateful Eight hits cinemas on Friday (January 8), has previously revealed that he would step away from filmmaking after his tenth project.
"There is not a genre left where I have that same burning desire I had to do a World War II movie or a martial arts movie," Tarantino told Time Out New York. "I think maybe the one genre left might be a 1930s gangster movie, that kind of John Dillinger thing."
On the possibility of making a horror film, he added, "If I had all the time in the world, I would love to make a really, really scary horror film, like The Exorcist... I don't know if me taking my sense of humour and putting it in the back seat just to hit a tone of dread from beginning to end is the best use of my talents of my time."
Samuel L. Jackson and Walton Goggins in The Hateful Eight
On his decision to leave the director's chair after ten films, he said he wants his career to have a definite end point.
"I don't want to be the guy who's doing this forever. There should be an end," he explained. "And I should take responsibility for that. I've gotten more solid on that idea. I think a lot of directors, if not all directors, think they have more time than they do.
"Certainly the reasons for making a film become sharper. It's not about making a movie to pay for your alimony. You don't make a movie just because blah blah blah wants to work with you."
