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Quentin Tarantino vowed not to share one penny of his $120million fortune with his mother

The director was offended by his mother’s words about his writing career (Picture: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Quentin Tarantino vowed to never share a penny with his mother Connie because she allegedly discouraged his writing career.

The writer and director is reportedly worth around $120million (£86m) thanks to the success of films including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood and Inglourious Basterds. 

However, he won’t share his wealth with his mum, due to her being ‘sarcastic’ about his writing dreams.

The 58-year-old appeared on Brian Koppelman’s podcast The Moment, and discussed writing screenplays at a young age, including a script called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit when he was 12 years old.

This got him into trouble with his teachers, who ‘looked at it as a defiant act of rebellion that I’m doing this instead of my school work’, and his mother ‘always had a hard time about my scholastic non-ability’, as he struggled in all subjects aside from English and history. 

Tarantino told the Billions co-creator: ‘She was b****ing 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*** 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 one penny 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 is worth an estimated $120 million (Picture: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Koppelman asked: ‘Did you stick to that?’, with the Oscar winner replying: ‘Yeah, yeah. I helped her out with a jam with the IRS. But no house. No Cadillac, no house.’

Tarantino added: ‘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.’

Connie gave birth to her son when she was 16 years old, with his father, Tony Tarantino, leaving the family shortly before Quentin was born. 

After raising him in Knoxville, Tennessee, Connie moved herself and Quentin to Los Angeles when her son was four years old, and her second husband Curtis Zastoupil encouraged the youngster’s love of movies.

Tarantino has made 10 films in his career since 1992 – Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood.

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And his next project will be his last, as he plans on retiring. 

The star, who has a one-year-old son, Leo, with wife Daniella Pick, told Bill Maher: ‘I know film history and from here on in, filmmakers do not get better.

‘I don’t have a reason that I would want to say out loud, that’s going to win any argument in a court of public opinion or supreme court or anything like that.

‘At the same time, working for 30 years doing as many movies as I’ve done, it’s not as many as other people, but that’s a long career. That’s a really long career.

‘And I’ve given it everything I have, every single solitary thing I have.’


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