I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that’s becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Tarantino is voicing a preference for classical, audience-oriented storytelling—films that clearly “tell a story” rather than prioritizing mood, spectacle, franchise mechanics, or self-conscious formal experimentation. By calling it a “lost art,” he implies that mainstream American cinema has, in his view, drifted away from coherent narrative drive and the pleasures of being led through a tale by a confident filmmaker. The remark also aligns with Tarantino’s broader cinephile persona: he champions directors and genres that foreground plot, character turns, and scene-to-scene momentum, and he often frames his own work as a deliberate return to (or remix of) older narrative traditions.