Speaking on The Moment podcast with Brian Koppelman, Tarantino recalled making a private promise that his mother, Connie Zastoupil, would not share in his future financial success.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mum always had a hard time about my scholastic non-ability, and then in the middle of her little tirade, she said, \u2018Oh, and by the way, this little \u2018writing career,\u2019 with the finger quotes and everything. This little \u2018writing career\u2019 that you\u2019re doing? That s \u2014 is over,\u2019\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen she said that to me in that sarcastic way, I was in my head and I go, \u2018OK lady, when I become a successful writer, you will never see one penny from my success. There will be no house for you. There\u2019s no vacation for you, no Elvis Cadillac for mummy. You get nothing because you said that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
MORE: Stevie Wonder shock at 76 as ex won\u2019t leave<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018F**k\u2019: Simone Biles\u2019 emotional breakdown<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Hell\u2019: Duran Duran star exposes sad demise<\/a><\/p>\n Quentin Tarantino said his mother would never have a home purchased with his earnings. Picture: Stephane Cardinale \u2013 Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n The remarks describe a decision that began long before Tarantino had a film career, let alone the money to purchase property for someone else. At the time, his interest in writing had become a point of conflict over his performance in school.<\/p>\n Tarantino told Koppelman that his mother struggled with what he described as his \u201cscholastic non-ability.\u201d He revealed that his teachers had complained that he was not paying attention in class, where he was working on screenplays.<\/p>\n For Tarantino, the exchange became something he remembered well beyond childhood \u2014 and beyond the point when writing began paying his bills.<\/p>\n His subsequent credits include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Django Unchained, establishing a filmmaking career that made the financial rewards he had once imagined possible.<\/p>\n Still, he said he had not bought his mother either a home or a car.<\/p>\n He did acknowledge one exception to his stance on financial assistance: \u201cI helped her out of a jam with the IRS.\u201d<\/p>\n Koppelman suggested that her criticism might have contributed to his determination to succeed by giving him something to prove. Tarantino, however, defended the significance he attached to the exchange.<\/p>\n \u201cRemember: There are consequences for your sarcastic tone about what\u2019s meaningful to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n His account of that argument is only one part of his mother\u2019s role in his early life.<\/p>\n The Pulp Fiction director previously revealed that he decided against buying his mother a house when he was just 12 years old, after she dismissed the writing ambitions that would eventually make him famous. Picture: Tibrina Hobson\/Getty Images for Santa Barbara International Film Festival<\/p>\n Speaking on \u201cThe Moment\u201d podcast with Brian Koppelman, Tarantino recalled making a private promise that his mother, Connie Zastoupil, would not share in his future financial success. (the filmmaker\u2019s house). Picture: Google Maps<\/p>\n Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1963, Tarantino was raised by his mother, who worked as a nurse. After the family moved to Los Angeles, he had opportunities to watch movies that were aimed at audiences older than he was.<\/p>\n His mother allowed him to see films including Carnal Knowledge and Deliverance, while her then-husband, musician Curtis Zastoupil, took him to screenings.<\/p>\n Tarantino later worked at a cinema in Torrance and spent five years at Video Archives, the video store where he continued developing his knowledge of movies.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, \u2018No, I went to films,\u2019\u201d he previously told the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n His reluctance to purchase a house for his mother also sits alongside a separate set of views about buying property for himself.<\/p>\n According to filmmaker Eli Roth, Tarantino cautioned him against rushing into homeownership after achieving success in Hollywood. The advice focused on keeping housing expenses from dictating which projects he could afford to accept.<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t buy a house as soon as you\u2019re successful, hold on to your money,\u201d he told Roth, suggesting he wait \u201cuntil you can afford to completely pay for it outright.\u201d<\/p>\n He did acknowledge one exception to his stance on financial assistance: \u201cI helped her out of a jam with the IRS.\u201d (seen with his wife). Picture: Daniele Venturelli\/WireImage<\/p>\n Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1963, Tarantino was raised by his mother, who worked as a nurse. After the family moved to Los Angeles, he had opportunities to watch movies that were aimed at audiences older than he was. Picture: Michael Tullberg\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Tarantino \u2014 who has been living in the same house since 1996 \u2014 also advised Roth to not \u201cbecome an employee of your house.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe goes, \u2018I didn\u2019t buy a house until Jackie Brown. Everyone else thought I was going to buy one after Pulp Fiction. I waited because I didn\u2019t want to get stuck being an employee of my house \u2014 and then I didn\u2019t have to worry about it,\u201d Tarantino told Roth.<\/p>\n Roth followed that advice, continuing to rent after the success of Hostel and eventually purchasing a home in 2007, when he was 35, Fortune reported.<\/p>\n For Tarantino, the two accounts reveal different reasons for keeping a house purchase off the table. In his advice to Roth, waiting offered greater control over a filmmaking career. In his recollection of his mother\u2019s criticism, refusing to buy her a home fulfilled a promise he had made before that career even began.<\/p>\n Parts of this story first appeared in Realtor<\/a> and was republished with permission.<\/p>\n MORE: \u2018Empty\u2019: Attenborough\u2019s lonely life at 100<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Really sick\u2019 80s star looks incredible at 64<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Awful\u2019: I Dream of Jeannie star sad life at 95<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Hollywood success has brought him two Oscars and a fortune estimated at $US150 million ($A212 million)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-945413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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