100 Facts About Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American filmmaker, actor, and author.

Quentin Tarantino's films are characterized by graphic violence, extended dialogue often featuring much profanity, and references to popular culture.

Quentin Tarantino's work has earned a cult following alongside critical and commercial success; he has been named by some as the most influential director of his generation and has received numerous awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

Quentin Tarantino's films have grossed more than $1.9 billion worldwide.

Quentin Tarantino's second film, the crime comedy-drama Pulp Fiction, was a major success and won numerous awards, including the Cannes Film Festival's and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Quentin Tarantino next wrote and starred in the action horror film From Dusk till Dawn.

Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed the martial arts films Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Kill Bill: Volume 2, with both volumes combined regarded as a single film.

Quentin Tarantino then made the exploitation-slasher film Death Proof, which was part of a double feature with From Dusk till Dawn director Robert Rodriguez, released under the collective title Grindhouse.

Quentin Tarantino followed this with Django Unchained, a slave revenge Spaghetti Western which won him his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Quentin Tarantino's eighth film, The Hateful Eight, was a revisionist Western thriller and opened to audiences with a roadshow release.

Quentin Tarantino's ninth and most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, was a comedy-drama set in the late 1960s about the transition of Old Hollywood to New Hollywood; his debut novel, a novelization of the film, was published in 2021.

Quentin Tarantino has said that, though it is not definite, his current plan is for his next film to be his last before he retires.

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 27,1963, the only child of Connie McHugh and aspiring actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before his son's birth.

Quentin Tarantino has claimed to have Cherokee ancestry through his mother, who was of Irish descent, while his father was Italian-American.

Quentin Tarantino was named in part after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds's character in the TV series Gunsmoke.

Quentin Tarantino's mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles; after a brief marriage and divorce, she left Los Angeles and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived, and returned to Los Angeles with her son in 1966.

Quentin Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after arriving in Los Angeles, and the family moved to nearby Torrance, California.

At the age of 14, Quentin Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit that was based on the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit.

Quentin Tarantino later revealed that his mother had ridiculed his writing skills when he was younger, and he subsequently vowed never to share any of his future wealth with her.

Quentin Tarantino spent time as a recruiter in the aerospace industry, and for five years he worked at Video Archives, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California.

Quentin Tarantino would go on to produce and direct the short film.

Later, Quentin Tarantino attended acting classes at the James Best Theatre Company, where he met several of his eventual collaborators for his next film.

In 1987, Quentin Tarantino co-wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday.

Bender encouraged Quentin Tarantino to write the screenplay, which he wrote in three and a half weeks and presented to Bender unformatted.

The second script that Quentin Tarantino sold was for the film Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone.

Quentin Tarantino was given story credit and stated in an interview that he wished the film well, but later disowned the final film.

Quentin Tarantino wrote, directed, and acted in the dark comedy crime film Pulp Fiction in 1994, maintaining the graphic depiction of violence from his earlier film as well as the non-linear storylines.

Quentin Tarantino received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, which he shared with Roger Avary, who contributed to the story.

Quentin Tarantino received a nomination in the Best Director category.

Quentin Tarantino won the for the film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1995, Quentin Tarantino participated in the anthology film Four Rooms, a collaboration that included directors Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders and Alexandre Rockwell.

Quentin Tarantino directed and acted in the fourth segment of "The Man from Hollywood", a tribute to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Man from the South".

Quentin Tarantino joined Rodriguez again later in the year with a supporting role in Desperado.

One of Quentin Tarantino's first paid writing assignments was for From Dusk till Dawn, which Rodriguez directed later in 1996, re-teaming with Quentin Tarantino in another acting role, alongside Harvey Keitel, George Clooney and Juliette Lewis.

In 1998, Quentin Tarantino made his major Broadway stage debut as an amoral psycho killer in a revival of the 1966 play Wait Until Dark, which received unfavorable reviews for his performance from critics.

Quentin Tarantino went on to write and direct Kill Bill, a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Chinese martial arts films, Japanese period dramas, Spaghetti Westerns, and Italian horror.

Quentin Tarantino says he still considers it a single film in his overall filmography.

From 2002 to 2004, Quentin Tarantino portrayed villain McKenas Cole in the ABC television series Alias.

In 2004, Quentin Tarantino attended the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where he served as president of the jury.

Quentin Tarantino then contributed to Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City, and was credited as "Special Guest Director" for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro.

In May 2005, Quentin Tarantino co-wrote and directed "Grave Danger", the fifth season finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

In 2007, Quentin Tarantino directed the exploitation slasher film Death Proof.

Quentin Tarantino had planned to start work on the film after Jackie Brown but postponed this to make Kill Bill after a meeting with Uma Thurman.

Quentin Tarantino received his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

In November 2013, Quentin Tarantino said he was working on a new film and that it would be another Western, though not a sequel to Django Unchained.

Aggrieved by the breach of confidence, Quentin Tarantino considered abandoning the production which was due to start the next winter and publish it as a novel instead.

Quentin Tarantino stated that he had given the script to a few trusted colleagues, including Bruce Dern, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen.

Quentin Tarantino explained that they would read the first draft of the script, and added that he was writing two new drafts with a different ending.

In November 2022, Quentin Tarantino revealed plans to shoot an eight-episode television series in 2023.

In 2009, Quentin Tarantino said that he planned to retire from filmmaking when he is 60 to focus on writing novels and film literature.

Quentin Tarantino has used his Hollywood power to give smaller and foreign films more attention.

In 1995, Quentin Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with Miramax to release or re-release several independent and foreign features.

Quentin Tarantino presented 2006's The Protector, and is a producer of the 2007 film Hostel: Part II.

In February 2010, Quentin Tarantino bought the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles.

Quentin Tarantino allowed the previous owners to continue operating the theater, but stated he would make occasional programming suggestions.

In 2021, Quentin Tarantino announced that he had purchased the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles, stating that he intends to keep it a first-run theatre, and that like The New Beverly it will only show movies on film.

In June 2020, Quentin Tarantino became an officially recognized critic on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes where his reviews are part of the "Tomatometer" rating.

Quentin Tarantino has since published over 30 film reviews, including director essays, on his New Beverly Cinema website.

Quentin Tarantino is among a few notable directors, including Martin Scorsese and Edgar Wright, who appreciate Elaine May's 1987 film Ishtar, despite its reputation as being a notorious box-office flop and one of the worst films ever made.

Quentin Tarantino is an admirer of the 1981 film Blow Out, directed by Brian De Palma, which led to his casting of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction.

Similarly, Quentin Tarantino was captivated with Jim McBride's 1983 remake of Breathless and with Richard Gere's unlikable but charismatic protagonist.

Quentin Tarantino has labeled Rio Bravo as one of his influences.

Quentin Tarantino listed the Australian suspense film Roadgames as another favorite film.

Quentin Tarantino has occasionally used a non-linear story structure in his films, most notably with Pulp Fiction.

Quentin Tarantino has used the style in Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, and The Hateful Eight.

Quentin Tarantino creates his own products and brands that he uses in his films to varying degrees.

Quentin Tarantino is known for his choice of music in his films, including soundtracks that often use songs from the 1960s and 70s.

Quentin Tarantino has stated in many interviews that his writing process is like writing a novel before formatting it into a script, saying that this creates the blueprint of the film and makes the film feel like literature.

Quentin Tarantino has built up an informal "repertory company" of actors who have appeared in many roles in his films.

Quentin Tarantino said on The Howard Stern Show that Lee would have to "stand on a chair to kiss [his] ass".

Quentin Tarantino said his then-girlfriend Mira Sorvino told him in the mid-1990s about her experience with Weinstein.

Quentin Tarantino confronted Weinstein at the time and received an apology.

Quentin Tarantino said he confronted Weinstein, as he had previously when Weinstein made advances on his former partner, demanding he apologize.

Quentin Tarantino banned him from contact with Thurman for the remainder of the film's production.

In 1993, Quentin Tarantino sold his script for Natural Born Killers, which was rewritten, giving him only a story credit.

In 1994, Quentin Tarantino had an on-set feud with Denzel Washington during the filming of Crimson Tide over what was described as "Quentin Tarantino's racist dialogue added to the script".

In 1997, during the Oscars ceremony, Quentin Tarantino was accompanying Mira Sorvino when the then-MTV News host, Chris Connelly, called over to Sorvino from the media scrum.

The article that angered Quentin Tarantino included a 1995 interview from a biography by Jami Bernard with his biological father, Tony Quentin Tarantino, someone he had never met, which he considered "pretty tasteless".

In 2009, Quentin Tarantino was set to appear on the talk show Late Show with David Letterman to promote Inglourious Basterds.

Quentin Tarantino was not forthcoming, but at his publicist's urging, he begrudgingly conceded.

In 2013, during an interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on Channel 4 News while promoting Django Unchained in the UK, Quentin Tarantino reacted angrily when he was questioned about whether there was a link between movie violence and real-life violence.

Quentin Tarantino informed Guru-Murthy that he had commented on the subject many times before and did not need to explain again, therefore was "shutting [his] butt down".

Quentin Tarantino responded indignantly "I just reject your hypothesis", with no further comment.

Quentin Tarantino published his first novel in June 2021, a novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

In June 2021, Quentin Tarantino announced plans to start a podcast with Roger Avary.

Quentin Tarantino was her date at the 68th Oscars ceremony where she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

On June 30,2017, Quentin Tarantino became engaged to Israeli singer Daniella Pick, daughter of musician Zvika Pick.

In 2015, Quentin Tarantino said that Barack Obama is his favorite president and voiced support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Quentin Tarantino said this was an act of rebellion against his Catholic mother as she had encouraged what might usually be considered more conventional forms of rebellion, such as his interests in comic books and horror films.

Quentin Tarantino has said he does not believe that violence in film inspires real acts of violence.

In October 2015, Quentin Tarantino attended a rally held in New York protesting police brutality.

Quentin Tarantino's movies are extremely violent, but he doesn't understand violence.

Quentin Tarantino has stated that he plans to make a total of just ten films before retiring as a director, as a means of ensuring an overall high quality within his filmography.

Quentin Tarantino has won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay twice, for Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained.

Quentin Tarantino has been nominated four times for the at the Cannes Film Festival, winning once for Pulp Fiction in 1994.

In 2005, Quentin Tarantino was awarded the honorary Icon of the Decade at the 10th Empire Awards.

Quentin Tarantino has received lifetime achievement awards from two organizations, Cinemanila, and from the Rome Film Festival in 2012.

In 2011, Quentin Tarantino was given an Honorary Cesar by the.

Quentin Tarantino was on The Daily Telegraph list of "Top 100 Living Geniuses" in 2007.

Quentin Tarantino has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.