Quentin Tarantino filmography two other films. The following year, Tarantino directed "The Man from Hollywood", one of the four segments of the anthology film "Four Rooms", and an episode of "ER", entitled "The Motherhood". He wrote Robert Rodriguez's "From Dusk till Dawn" (1996)—one of the many collaborations between them—which attained cult status and spawned several sequels, in which they served as executive producers. His next directorial ventures "Jackie Brown" (1997) and "Kill Bill" (2003–04) were met with critical acclaim. The latter, a two-part martial arts film ( and ), follows a former assassin, seeking revenge on her ex-colleagues who attempted to kill her.
Quentin Tarantino that he would try to get people to watch really cool movies." After Tarantino met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged him to write a screenplay. His first attempted script, which he described as a "straight 70s exploitation action movie" was never published and was abandoned soon after. Tarantino co-wrote and directed his first movie, "My Best Friend's Birthday", in 1987. The final reel of the film was almost completely destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing, but its screenplay later formed the basis for "True Romance". In 1986, Tarantino got his first Hollywood job, working