Why Quentin Tarantino refuses to buy his mother home

Quentin Tarantino’s Hollywood success has brought him two Oscars and a fortune estimated at $US150 million ($A212 million) — but the filmmaker has said his mother would never receive one particular reward: a home purchased with his earnings. The Pulp Fiction director previously revealed that he decided against buying his mother a house when he was just 12 years old, after she dismissed the writing ambitions that would eventually make him famous, Realtor reports. Speaking on The Moment podcast with Brian Koppelman, Tarantino recalled making a private promise that his mother, Connie Zastoupil, would not share in his future financial success. “My mum always had a hard time about my scholastic non-ability, 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 — is over,’” he recalled. “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 one penny from my success. There will be no house for you. There’s no vacation for you, no Elvis Cadillac for mummy. You g...