30 Facts About Quentin Tarantino

1. His full name is Quentin Jerome Tarantino.


2. He was born on 27th March, in 1963.


3. He hails from Knoxville, Tennessee.


4. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an actor and musician.


5. His mother, Connie McHugh, is a nurse.


6. Tony and Connie separated before their son was born.


7. He has two sisters, Tanya and Ronnajean, and a brother, Edward.


8. He is of Irish, Italian and Cherokee descent.


9. Tarantino dropped out of Narbonne High School at the age of fifteen, to spend more time on his acting career.


10. When asked where he studied films, he says the Video Archives rental store, where he worked.


11. His first film, My Best Friends Birthday was destroyed in a fire.


12. He wrote the script for Reservoir Dogs in three and a half weeks.


13. He wrote the script for Pulp Fiction in Amsterdam.


14. The film Jackie Brown was adapted from the Elmore Leonard novel, Rum Punch.


15. Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2 were inspired by Chinese martial arts, Japanese cinema, Spaghetti westerns and Italian horror.


16. He once claimed that Uma Thurman was ‘his muse’.


17. He was a Special Guest Director on Sin City.


18. He contributed the film Death Proof for Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse project.


19. Tarantino often works with Robert Rodriguez – they are good friends.


20. Tarantino’s highest grossing film was Inglorious Basterds in 2009.


21. He plans to retire from film-making when he is sixty.


22. He had plans to be novelist.


23. He has an IQ of 160.


24. In 2010, he bought the New Beverly Cinema.


25. One of his favourite films is Battle Royale.


26. Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in five Tarantino films.


27. Tarantino’s first award was for Reservoir Dogs. He scooped the Critics Award at the fourth Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, in 1993.


28. He used to shoplift as a teenager.


29. He attacked Don Murphy in a restaurant, and was sued $5,000,000.


30. Tarantino often has minor and cameo roles in his films – to date, he has been in seventeen.