The Jerusalem Film Festival's in full swing at the moment, and over the weekend director Quentin Tarantino was on-hand to receive a lifetime achievement award from festival director Noa Regev and Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat.

At one point someone handed him a microphone, and...well, as per usual, our man Quentin had some thoughts to share. For instance, here's Tarantino (as quoted by Screen Daily) on the one thing he demands from his actors:

“You have to know my dialogue backwards and forwards. Anything else and I could fire you and start again because you’re just disrespecting me. I am paying them to say my dialogue. That is their job. I like my actors, but I love my characters.”

And here's Tarantino claiming that Inglorious Basterds' Col. Hans Landa might be the best character he'll ever write:

“Landa is the best character I’ve ever written and maybe the best I ever will write. I didn’t realise (when I was first writing Landa) that he was a linguistic genius. He’s probably one of the only Nazis in history who could speak perfect Yiddish.”

But here's the real money quote: Tarantino reiterating that he intends on retiring after completing work on his tenth film:

"I am planning to stop at 10 (films), but at 75 I might decide I have another story to do.”

Tarantino's plan, as I understand it, is to make a transition from film into other mediums. Playwriting, perhaps, or novels. While that's all well and good - any new Tarantino writings will always provide us with a reason to celebrate - I have to admit that all this "no more Tarantino movies" talk makes me nervous. I'm not pumped to live in a world where we aren't always in-between new Tarantino joints.

What do you make of all this? Think he'll make good on this promise? What genres do you expect Tarantino to mine in his "final" two films (isn't one of them a western)? Sound off and/or get your pre-mourn on in the comments below.