Quentin Tarantino Explains Why He’ll Never Use Netflix

Despite the rising popularity of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and VOD services, the director expanded his library with video tapes when he bought the contents of California-based video rental store Video Archives. While many of Tarantino’s peers say they’ve embraced the new technology as an inevitable part of Hollywood’s evolution, Tarantino remains unconvinced.

In an except from the upcoming book I Lost It At The Video Store, published by Indie Wire the director says, “I am not excited about streaming at all”.

Before he made it in Hollywood, Tarantino was a regular patron of one of California’s oldest movie houses. “Probably close to 8,000 tapes and DVDs”. He even goes on to reveal that he actually still tapes movies off the TV onto VHS tapes just so he can continue to bolster his collection.

On the other side of the spectrum, there’s Smith and Aronofsky, who said that they don’t mind watching movies on a phone.

And Darren Aronofsky talked about creating a special iPhone sound mix for the digital release of Noah, so that audiences watching on their portable devices would get the best film experience possible.

His films – including Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained – may be a few of the most watched on the service, but that hasn’t stopped the director going out of his way to avoid it.

As much as I use various streaming platforms on a daily basis, I miss the weekend childhood ritual of going to the video store and finding something Id never heard of, but that looked awesome.