For a lot of hardened cinephiles, waiting for Quentin Tarantino to open up about his next film is somewhat comparable to the act of waiting for Christmas. I mean, maybe it's not up there with Christmas, but... well, actually, it kind of is. The Tennessee-born director, renowned for his violent, sweary movies and his tendency to talk a lot, is without a doubt one of the most popular directors working today, his films beloved by many. Be it down to their density, his iconic, always memorable characters, or the fact that you never know what you're getting, it isn't hyperbolic to say that the man has consistently delivered great movie after great movie ever since 1992's Reservoir Dogs. And guess what? Tarantino just announced his next movie, people! We're serious. Well, sort of serious. He announced the genre of his next movie, and the revelation might surprise those people who thought Tarantino was writing a period gangster movie, or was working on that long-awaited draft of Kill Bill, Vol. 3: it's a western. Yep: Tarantino will follow his epic, southern-set western Django Unchained - which saw freed slave Jamie Foxx and bounty hunter Christoph Waltz talking on Leonardo DiCaprio's evil planation owner Calvin Candie - with another western. For those of you who awaiting that insane Tarantino sci-fi flick, you'll have to wait a little longer. So where's all this coming from, then? "It's not a Django sequel, but it's another Western," the motormouthed director told Jay Leno last night on his show. "I had so much fun doing Django and I love westerns so much, that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'" Um, okay! Sounds great to us. Still, given that even Tarantino himself is regarding Django Unchained as something of a learning exercise, we've put together a list of "lessons" that the director might take into consideration for his follow-up venture, based on what we saw in his brilliant - but arguably flawed - first foray into the western genre...