Fact File on Quentin Tarantino
Facts
- as a kid film was the only thing that interested him
- anything he didn't have an interest in he would completely ignore and wouldn't be able to pretend to like it.
- lived with his mother
- as a kid he would reenact scenes from films he had watched with G.I Joe action men
- he dropped out of school at 16 and started to try and work in film
- his first two jobs where both todo with the porn industry consisting of an usher, Tarantino says that he couldn't care less about these films as they whereat interesting to him. (also he lied about his age to got the job as he got it at 16)
- later on he got a job at Video Archives and acted as a critique for customers who wanted to know about the films they might be buying.
- during his time working at this job he tried creating a feature film with the money he got and after three years of making it he finally started producing the film and saw that it was terrible.
- after this failure he became depressed heavily for a short period of time, and after he got over it he though of the failed him as his time at film school where instead of paying a lot of money to get in he did it himself.
- prefers non-linear storytelling as its more interesting.
- as soon as the movie gets too confusing he will loose interest in it.
- he likes to implement his personal experiences at the time into his writing, he does this so that his portrayal doesn't seem like a robot.
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- at 14 years old he wrote a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, which was about someone he steals pizzas, helped to be based of off 'smokey and the bandit'
- he wrote reservoir dogs/ screenplay during his time working at Video Archives
- my best friends birthday was his first feature film
- Pulp fiction was nominated for three oscars and won one for best screenplay.
- the wallet that says bad mother fucker on it used in Pulp Fiction was owned by Tarantino.
- kill Bill was his first movie to use the word f*ck less than 100 times.
- he has never won an oscar for directing but 2 for screenwriting.
- hes made 100,000,000 dollars.
- as a kid film was the only thing that interested him
- anything he didn't have an interest in he would completely ignore and wouldn't be able to pretend to like it.
- lived with his mother
- as a kid he would reenact scenes from films he had watched with G.I Joe action men
- he dropped out of school at 16 and started to try and work in film
- his first two jobs where both todo with the porn industry consisting of an usher, Tarantino says that he couldn't care less about these films as they whereat interesting to him. (also he lied about his age to got the job as he got it at 16)
- later on he got a job at Video Archives and acted as a critique for customers who wanted to know about the films they might be buying.
- during his time working at this job he tried creating a feature film with the money he got and after three years of making it he finally started producing the film and saw that it was terrible.
- after this failure he became depressed heavily for a short period of time, and after he got over it he though of the failed him as his time at film school where instead of paying a lot of money to get in he did it himself.
- prefers non-linear storytelling as its more interesting.
- as soon as the movie gets too confusing he will loose interest in it.
- he likes to implement his personal experiences at the time into his writing, he does this so that his portrayal doesn't seem like a robot.
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- at 14 years old he wrote a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, which was about someone he steals pizzas, helped to be based of off 'smokey and the bandit'
- he wrote reservoir dogs/ screenplay during his time working at Video Archives
- my best friends birthday was his first feature film
- Pulp fiction was nominated for three oscars and won one for best screenplay.
- the wallet that says bad mother fucker on it used in Pulp Fiction was owned by Tarantino.
- kill Bill was his first movie to use the word f*ck less than 100 times.
- he has never won an oscar for directing but 2 for screenwriting.
- hes made 100,000,000 dollars.
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