has revealed why sex scenes are not ‘necessary’ to his films.
The director may be packed full of gore, most notably in the film that kick-started his , 1992 film .
But one thing there is a surprising lack of in his pictures is raunchy scenes.
Only two entries in his back catalogue – the 1977 gangster flick Jackie Brown and 2009 war film Inglourious Basterds – feature sex scenes.
In a new interview, Tarantino, 60, listed the reasons why these steamy interactions on the big screen don’t align with his ‘vision’ of cinema.
‘Sex is not part of my vision of cinema, and the truth is that, in real life, it’s a pain to shoot sex scenes. Everyone is very tense,’ he told .
‘If it was already a bit problematic to do it before, now it is even more so,’ he said, seemingly alluding to the growing number of stars revealing they had felt uncomfortable shooting intimate scenes.
‘If there had ever been a sex scene that was essential to the story, I would have, but so far it hasn’t been necessary,’ he added.
Elsewhere in the interview, he talked about the one film in his back catalogue that shook his confidence after it ‘bombed’.
The film in question was 2007 thriller Death Proof, released as one half of Grindhouse with the other segment being Robert Rodriguez’s zombie horror Planet Terror.
While the film has since become somewhat of a cult classic, at the time of its standalone release, it only garnered $30million (£24.1m) overseas.
‘I have been lucky enough to write stories that have connected with many people, and this has allowed me to practice my art without the restrictions that most filmmakers have,’ he began.
‘Now, a funny thing happened: For a while, I was getting a lot of project proposals, until the studios ended up assuming that I do my stories and it wasn’t worth the effort.
‘But after Death Proof, which didn’t do well at the box office and was a bit of a shock to my confidence, I started getting proposals again.’
He added that there is ‘nothing wrong’ with taking on Hollywood projects, but instead preferred to ‘reinvest in [himself]’.
Following this, the director went on to make Inglourious Basterds, which follows a group of Jewish soldiers on an undercover mission to bring down the Nazi government and put an end to the war.
The film – starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent – became Tarantino’s highest-grossing film to that point before being surpassed by Django Unchained in 2012.
