Quentin Tarantino's 10th motion picture "The Hateful Eight" will forgo some of the major casting choices seen in previous films, but one actor is notably missing: two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz.

Undoubtedly, the Austrian-born actor, who was relatively unknown to American audiences before 2009, owes much of his Hollywood success to Tarantino, who cast him in "Inglourious Basterds," where he won the Oscar, Golden Globe, Cannes, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Awards for his performance as the multilingual and murderous SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa, aka "The Jew Hunter." Tarantino himself feared he "might have written a part that was un-playable."

Perhaps that wasn't the case for Waltz this time around: In a new interview with Moviefone, the hot topic of the thespian becoming a "troupe" colleague for film auteurs Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino brought about Waltz's noteworthy vantage point on his career options. For starters, Waltz, who gave a Golden Globe-nominated performance as as plagiarist Walter Keane in Tim Burton's "Big Eyes," opted not to appear in "The Hateful Eight," stating that he does not want to be pigeon-holed. More notably, Waltz said that he doesn't want to be a groupie.

Waltz noted: "Like I said, a group in and of itself... You know, groupies are groupies. That's their function. But since I'm not a groupie, I have to have something to do in the group. And if I don't have anything to do in the group, hey..."

This is only slightly tragic, considering Waltz won his second Oscar, a Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for "Django Unchained" in 2012. Instead, he'll be starring in the next James Bond film, Spectre.

He continued: "It has to be right. It's nice to be part of a group but it needs to be right. You have to have a proper place. And just to be in the group for group dynamic's sake is, to me, I find it extremely frustrating."

It may also be Tarantino's last film.

"I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do think directing is a young man's game, and 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," the director said in a panel discussion shot by The Independent.

He continued: "I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography, and so I've got two more to go after this. It's not etched in stone, but that is the plan. 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."

"I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off," Tarantino said.