You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? Giggling like a bunch of young broads in a school yard. Well, let me tell you a joke: Five guys sitting in a bull pen, San Quentin. Wondering how the fuck they got there. What'd we do wrong? What should we've done? What didn't we do? It's your fault, my fault, his fault. All that bullshit. Finally, someone comes up with the idea, wait a minute, while we were planning this caper, all we did was sit around and tell fucking jokes. Got the message?

Ticket sales were low despite mostly positive reviews. He grew bored with the James Best Acting School and quit after two years although he made a point of keeping in touch with all his acting friends. 1990s
In January 1992 Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was an immediate hit.

Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him "the single most influential director of his generation. 1 (2003) and Vol. 2 (2004) – a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Chinese martial arts spaghetti westerns and Italian horror.