Quentin Tarantino On Cutting His Mom Out Financially: 'There Are Consequences For Your Words'

Quentin Tarantino has made millions from directing, producing and writing films, but none of it has gone to his mother.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker, 58, revealed on "Billions" co-creator Brian Koppelman's "The Moment" podcast that he vowed as a child to never share his fortune with his mother, Connie Zastoupil, if he finds success after she allegedly discouraged his writing career.

According to Tarantino, he began writing screenplays in grade school, but his teachers "looked at it as a defiant act of rebellion that I’m doing this instead of my school work." He shared that he struggled academically in school and that his mom "had a hard time about my scholastic non-ability."

Tarantino recalled that after he got in trouble for writing screenplays in school, his mother "was bitching at me… about that…. and then in the middle of her little tirade, she said, 'Oh, and by the way, this little ‘writing career,' with the finger quotes and everything. This little 'writing career' that you’re doing? That s–t is over!'"

Her words did not sit well with Tarantino, who said he made up his mind at that moment to never support his mom financially if he becomes successful.

"And when she said that to me in that sarcastic way, I was in my head, and I go, ‘OK, lady. When I become a successful writer, you will never see penny one from my success. There will be no house for you. There’s no vacation for you, no Elvis Cadillac for mommy. You get nothing. Because you said that," Tarantino was quoted by Page Six as saying.

When Koppelman asked if he had stuck with his vow, Tarantino replied, "Yeah, yeah. I helped her out with a jam with the IRS. But no house. No Cadillac, no house."

Tarantino's mom is still living. However, he firmly stood by his decision to cut her out financially, explaining to Koppelman, "There are consequences for your words as you deal with your children, remember there are consequences for your sarcastic tone about what’s meaningful to them."

Tarantino's 74-year-old mother was reportedly only 16 when she got pregnant with him. "Quentin would have you believe he was raised by wolves," Zastoupil told Jami Bernard, the film critic of the New York Daily News, The New Yorker reported.

According to the New Yorker, Tarantino was an "accident." His Tennessee-born mother only got married in order to "become an emancipated minor and go to college" and was reportedly "furious" when she learned that she was pregnant. Zastoupil divorced her husband, Tony Tarantino — who had told her he was sterile — and didn't introduce him to his son until the latter was a few years old.

Meanwhile, during their 90-minute talk on the podcast, Koppelman praised Tarantino's talent for writing, revealing he had read and admired his screenplays for "Natural Born Killers" and "True Romance" before they were ever sold as films.

"Thank you for all the gifts that you’ve given me. You read me the first 15 pages of 'Kill Bill' on an airplane one time… it was really an incredible experience, and so inspiring. Just the impact your work has had on me is really indescribable," Koppelman said.