Quentin Tarantino is putting fatherhood ahead of directing his final film.
On Monday, Jan. 27, the Pulp Fiction director, 61, told an audience at the Sundance Film Festival that he’s in “no hurry to actually jump into production.” Instead, Tarantino is giving all his focus to raising his two children.
“I’ve been doing that for 30 years,” he said of his work in the industry. “Next month my son turns 5, and I have a 2½-year-old daughter. When I’m in America, I’m writing. When I’m in Israel? I’m an abba, which means father.”
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“The idea of jumping on a voyage when they’re too young to understand it is not enticing to me,” he added of his kids. “I kind of want to not do whatever movie I end up doing until my son is at least 6. That way he’ll know what’s going on, he’ll be there, and it will be a memory for the rest of his life.”
When it comes to his daughter, Tarantino teased she’s “already such a genius” that “she’ll just get it.”
The Kill Bill director shares his two children with his wife Daniella. The pair welcomed their son Leo in February 2020, and their daughter, whose name hasn’t been released to the public, in July 2022.
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When speaking with Jimmy Kimmel on Jimmy Kimmy Live in 2021, Tarantino said he and his wife almost didn’t name their firstborn “Leo.”
“We almost didn’t name him that because people would assume I named him after Leonardo DiCaprio,” the director said. “There’s nothing wrong with that, but … he’s named after my wife’s grandfather, but also because, just in our hearts, he was our little lion.”
When Kimmel jokingly asked how soon it would be before Leo was “saying the F-word,” which is common in many of his guest’s films, Tarantino joked with a laugh, “As soon as possible.”