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About Quentin Tarantino (краткие биографические сведения)

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born on March 28, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. He is an American director, writer, and actor.

His mother, Connie McHugh was just 16 years old when she divorced (1) his father, Tony Tarantino. Tony didn’t know that she was pregnant (2). When Quentin was two years old they moved to Los Angeles where Quentin spent his childhood. His mother married a musician Curtis Zastoupil. His parents worked all day so Quentin spent all his days watching different TV series. Going to the movies was their favorite family activity.

At the age of 15 he started skipping (3) lessons at school. He quit school and started working as a ticket-taker at a movie theater. In the evenings he took acting courses. Then Tarantino found a job in a video archive that really inspired him before he became a producer.

His films are characterized by nonlinear (4) storylines, which means it doesn't progress in just one direction of time. The first movie that brought him huge success was "Pulp Fiction" (1994). The film consists of (5) a long talk of two gangsters and a few parallel events. Some thoughts (6) are really philosophical, namely (7) how difficult it is to change a way of life and how unpredictable (8) life can be.

Tarantino has good friendship relationships with Madonna and Uma Thurman. Tarantino said about not having any children that, "It’s my sacrifice (9) for the sake (10) of producing movies".

In 2017 Tarantino got ingaged with Israeli singer Daniela Peak.

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