“Because I know film history, and from here on, directors do not get better.” Tarantino pleads his case, saying, “I don’t have a reason that I would want to say out loud that’s going to win an argument in a court of public opinion or Supreme Court or anything like that, but at the same time, working for 30 years doing as many movies as I’ve done, it’s not as many as other people, but that’s a long career.