Quentin Tarantino: 'I am here to stay'

Quentin Tarantino has said that his ongoing success in the movie industry has proved his ability.

The director's Inglourious Basterds received eight Oscar nominations, including the 'Best Picture', 'Best Screenplay' and 'Best Director' prizes.

The nods are the first for any of his films since Robert Forster's unsuccessful nomination for 'Best Supporting Actor' for 1997's Jackie Brown.

Tarantino said: "I am simply very proud that Inglourious Basterds has been so well received.

"It's like this. I was always talked about for my first two films like I was some sort of flash in the pan. But then I went from flavour of the month, to flavour of the year, to flavour of the decade.

"Now, at the end of two decades in the business, well maybe I'm not the flavour of anything. I am here to stay."

However, Tarantino reiterated his plans to retire at 60 and become a "film critic and just become a man of letters".

He added: "I don't want to make old geriatric colostomy bag movies. I want to make hard-d**k movies and I want them all to come from the same place as Reservoir Dogs; from the same artist, from the same man."