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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Quentin Tarantino

It isn't long 'til Quentin Tarantino's seventh movie Django Unchained hits theatres, and going by the early reactions it's looking to be a doozy. After he's brought us defining works in the gangster, blaxploitation, samurai, war and slasher genres, we're practically giddy to see just what Tarantino has done with the spaghetti western. So whilst we wait for Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz to don their cowboy hits and ride out to meet Leonard DiCaprio, we've put together a list of 10 things you probably didn't know about Quentin Jerome Tarantino to help pass the time. We won't count his middle name - "Jerome" - as one.
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Published: Dec 3, 2012 11:46 am

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7. Tarantino has done jail time

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Before he was all rich and famous, Tarantino ran up parking ticket fees of around $7000 and ended up in L.A. county jail for 10 days. “I was actually in jail three different times for tickets,” Tarantino revealed. “I was picking up some dialogue, but I wasn’t in there for that. It was easier when you’re broke to do the time.” Picking up some dialogue? Yep, the man was definitely destined to be a writer.

And that’s not the only time Tarantino got himself in trouble with the law: at 15, he was arrested for stealing an Elmore Leonard novel. Ironically, he’d go on to make Jackie Brown from an Elmore Leonard novel, so the whole ordeal was probably worth it – granted that Tarantino got to keep that book.

8. Tarantino got offered a job directing Men in Black

Though Quentin Tarantino was originally rumored to be teaming up with Will Smith for Django Unchained, there might’ve been a point when these two cinematic forces could’ve come together for another reason – Men in Black. The cult classic (about a secret government agency assigned to protect the planet from acknowledging that aliens live among us) was offered to Tarantino off the back of his success with Reservoir Dogs. And although Barry Sonnenfeld’s movie was a big hit and proved popular with audiences, it would have been cool to see what Tarantino might’ve conjured up.

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