In a new interview, Quentin Tarantino reveals that as a child, he vowed never to share a penny of his movie-making fortune with his mother because she never supported his writing career.
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On his acclaimed podcast, “The Moment,” the Oscar winner told “Billions” co-creator Brian Koppelman that he first began writing screenplays in grade school, but got in trouble with his teachers, who “looked at it as a defiant act of rebellion that I’m doing this instead of my school work.”
When he was 12, the director of “Pulp Fiction” purportedly developed a script called “Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit.”
Quentin Tarantino told Koppelman that he suffered in school academically and that “my mother always had a hard time with my scholastic non-ability.”
According to Tarantino, when he was in trouble for writing the screenplays in school, he quickly remembered his mom’s position … “she was bitching at me… about that…. and then in the middle of her little tirade, she said, ‘Oh, and by the way, this little ‘writing career,’ with the finger quotes and everything. This little ‘writing career’ that you’re doing? That s–t is over!’”
“And when she said that to me in that sarcastic way, I was in my head, and I go, ‘OK, lady. When I become a successful writer, you will never see penny one from my success. There will be no house for you. There’s no vacation for you, no Elvis Cadillac for mommy. You get nothing. Because you said that,” Tarantino recalled.
In response, Koppelman asked Tarantino, “Did you stick to that?”
Tarantino said, “Yeah, yeah. I helped her out with a jam with the IRS. But no house. No Cadillac, no house.”
Tarantino confirmed that his mother is still living, but added of his decision long ago to cut her out financially, “There are consequences for your words as you deal with your children, remember there are consequences for your sarcastic tone about what’s meaningful to them.”
Tarantino’s mother, Connie, was 16 when she gave birth to the future directing icon in Tennessee, according to reports and they later moved to LA when Tarantino was 4.
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The New Yorker wrote in 2003 of the director’s childhood that one biography, “corrected the Agee-esque legend that had grown up around Tarantino since the release of ‘Reservoir Dogs’: that he was a dirt-poor illiterate hillbilly from Tennessee, brought up by a teen-age dropout.”
