The story goes that Tarantino’s producer, Lawrence Bender, read the script and asked Tarantino for one month find more money to produce the film appropriately. Not wanting to wait for some future day of Hollywood financing, he decided to take the True Romance money and parlay it to make a 16 mm “garage style no-budgeter”. After receiving the $30,000 up-front payment for his first sale of the script, Tarantino was anxious to direct his first movie. Scott liked Tarantino’s script so much he bought the rights to it. Through one of the producers there, he was able to get his script for True Romance in the hands of director Tony Scott. In 1990, Tarantino left his video clerk job to work for the production company Cinetel. This video store is where Tarantino would develop and master his encyclopedic knowledge of films as well as meet his future producing partner Roger Avary, who later collaborated on several screenplays with Tarantino.ĭuring his time at the video store, Tarantino worked on several screenplays, including True Romance and Natural Born Killers. From there he worked odd jobs including ushering at a adult theater, before finding his niche as a clerk at Video Archives, a now-defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach. After two years, however, he grew bored and left. By the time he was 16 years old he had dropped out of high school to study acting at the James Best Theater Company. “It was enough to bring a tear to a mother’s eye.”Īs a teenager Tarantino loathed school, choosing to spend his time watching movies or reading comics rather than studying. He’d always kill me and tell me how bad he felt about it,” his mother once told Entertainment Weekly. He had a passion for storytelling and showing his creativity in unusual ways.
Moving to California at the age of four, Tarantino developed his love for films at an early age. Don’t wait for a grant, don’t wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.”- Quentin Tarantinoīorn in Knoxville, Tennessee, Quentin Tarantino is the only child of Connie McHugh and actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before he was born. His existence and dominance, like other entrepreneurs, proves that it can be done. He’s proof that you can be heralded for doing what you love, exactly the way you want to do it. He is the promise of every self-starter who has even a shred of ambition to strive and accomplish their aspirations, no matter how grand and daunting they may seem. However, he also represents the dreamer in all of us and ascended beyond fandom to become a creator. It’s easy to love his twisted takes on genre and the beauty of the eccentric characters he creates. Tarantino’s appeal is hidden in plain sight. Never losing sight of his vision of becoming a director when he started out as a Video Archives clerk, Tarantino has gained his place not only as the master of violent, cerebral, Asian-inspired cinema, but as a modern day entrepreneur who knew what he wanted and didn’t take no for an answer. He writes, produces, directs, wins awards for every film and has a healthy bank balance to prove it.Nevertheless, Tarantino had to put in time to earn his success. Whether you love him or hate him, Quentin Tarantino is one of Hollywood’s most successful all-around talents. The September edition of the Business Review USA is now live!
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