Quentin Tarantino may only be 51, an age when most people his age are still scouring for cash for their retirement nest egg, but the critically acclaimed director is already gearing himself up for retirement in a not-so-distant future.

Tarantino, whose film credits include: Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds, dropped hints of retirement once he completes his tenth film.

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The actor, director, producer and screenwriter, has already done eight films and it wouldn't be that long until he bows out of the movie industry-with grace, of course.

In an interview with Deadline, Tarantino, whose Western film, The Hateful Eight, slated for release in 2015, said that to have made 10 films already "sounds right."

"If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don't screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career," he explained.

But the sense of retiring isn't really a fix state and if ever there's a material enticing enough to lure him hour of retirement, he'd willingly get up from his slumber and get back to work.

"If later on, I come across a good movie, I won't not do it just because I said I wouldn't. But 10 and done, leaving them wanting more - that sounds right," he said.

Tarantino believes that film-making is a "young man's game" and he does not want to reach the point when people will have to beg him just to stop from making films.

"I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie. I'm not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I'm still hard. ... I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography, and so I've got two more to go after this," he said.

The Hateful Eight stars Samuel L Jackson, Michael Madsen and Channing Tatum.

The film's script leaked in January, forcing Tarantino to decide to drop the movie and just release it as a novel, though he eventually changed his mind.

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