1.) He was named after the Burt Reynolds character Quint Asper from “Gunsmoke”<\/p>\n
2.) His mother gave birth to him when she was 16<\/p>\n
3.) Has said that he would like to direct a James Bond film sometime in his career<\/p>\n
4.) He was ex-girlfriend Mira Sorvino’s date the night she won her best supporting actress Oscar for “Mighty Aphrodite” in 1996<\/p>\n
5.) Although he uses both elements in his films, he strongly detests violence and drugs<\/p>\n
6.) He was thanked by Nirvana in the liner notes of their album “In Utero”
\nApparently, Quentin wanted Kurt Cobain to play Eric Stoltz’s character in Pulp Fiction.<\/p>\n
7.) He was originally offered the chance the direct “Speed”, but turned it down<\/p>\n
8.) Most of Tarantino’s movies contains a trunk shot, where the camera angle is coming from inside the trunk and looking up at the character looking in.<\/p>\n
9.) Quentin has a fondness of feet, so most of his movies have scenes with bare feet being blatantly shown.<\/p>\n
10.) Majority of Tarantino’s films feature a strong female lead
\nMia from Pulp Fiction , The Bride from Kill Bill, Shoshanna from Inglourious Basterds, etc.<\/p>\n
11.) He hates product placement, so he has his own recurring made-up brands for his own films
\nHis characters always smoke Red Apple cigarettes or eat at Big Kahuna Burger, both of which he made up.<\/p>\n
12.) He spent 10 days in LA county jail
\nWhen he was broke, he had $7,000 in unpaid parking tickets.<\/p>\n
13.) You can see him in one of his first acting gigs on an episode of “Golden Girls”
\nHe played an Elvis impersonator.<\/p>\n
14.) His formative years were largely spent working in a video rental store called Video Archive<\/p>\n
15.) Although he is one of modern cinema’s most celebrated directors, Tarantino has never attended film school<\/p>\n