Quentin Tarantino Net Worth

How much is Quentin Tarantino worth?

About Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is one of the few movie directors who is as famous as the actors he directs. Few directors have the stature that Tarantino does, he has an art and style unlike any other director combined with screenplay which really sets his work apart. While some find his movies gratuitously violent, realistically it is the dialogue and character depth that Tarantino is most known for. Often the violence is over dramatized and stylized in different ways in different movies. While most directors have a style that they stick to. Tarantino is known to experiment and present different styles in each one of his movies.

Loved by critics and with massive box office success Tarantino films are in a league of their own and deeply ingrained within popular culture. Some of his most popular films are Django Unchained, the Kill Bill series, and the cult classic Pulp Fiction.

Starring in a Tarantino movie has kickstarted actors’ careers and revitalized the careers of even more. The director is a cinematic genius and often regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.

With the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992, the director almost immediately became a respected filmmaker in Hollywood. Even though, in the early 90s, it was still just a whisper of what it would soon become.

Reservoir Dogs was entirely unexpected almost a movie that was inside-out with the focus being on the drama created among the criminals. Instead of the normal somewhat boring approach of focusing on the “action”. The truth is the action that Tarantino creates is entirely unique and in my opinion far more entertaining. Empire magazine called Reservoir Dogs the greatest independent film of all time, and Tarantino loves the movie more than anyone. He even made the cast of The Hateful Eight watch Reservoir Dogs for inspiration before production began. The film being reminiscent of course of his original picture.

After the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino wrote and directed Pulp Fiction, a movie that on paper wouldn’t reach commercial success due to its multi-strand narrative and unchronological scenes, but from a budget of just $8.5 million, the film has gone on to make $250 million worldwide from release up to now. The movie was a critical success, it won the most prestigious award in the film industry, the Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It is also a cult classic and is one of the most quoted films of all times.

“The Days Of Me Forgetting Are Over, And The Days Of Me Remembering Have Just Begun.” — Ringo

After that, Tarantino continued to spin out classics including Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained, which is his most financially successful movie to date, grossing $425 million worldwide. Most recently, Tarantino directed Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Margot Robbie in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a movie loosely based on the story of Sharon Tate. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, and literally received a 10 minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. Not to mention scoring Brad Pitt’s first Acadamy Award for an onscreen performance with his portrayal of the chracter, Cliff Booth.

Tarantino has become famous among people who aren’t even film buffs, something that is rare for a director of his caliber. His movies speak for themselves but the drama and build up of the productions add to the epicness made more so by Tarintino’s real life character. He often gets very involved in the pre and post movie interviews and you can positively feel his enjoyment in the entire experience that he is creating.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of his eccentric personality like the time Krishnan Guru-Murthy challenged Tarantino on his views about violence in his movies. Krishnan clearly a Tarantino film enthusiast himself but like any good reporter seemed to want to get under his skin a little to see if he could elicit a little more genius out.

The director is also a phenomenal actor, often writing himself into his own movies, like Mr Brown in Reservoir Dogs ‘Like a Virgin’ or the time he gets blown up in Django Unchained.

Tarantino dedicates himself wholeheartedly to every detail of making the perfect movie. Often investing years writing a script, and the precision and overall appearance of his films are beyond expectation. Which says a lot considering the build up to a Tarantino new release is one of the most awaited features. How much Quentin Tarantino makes personally from a single movie we wouldn’t speculate, but through his work he has become one of the richest directors of all time.

Sometimes like in the classic movie True Romance, Tarantino wrote the movie and it was actually directed by Tony Scott. However most often Tarantino’s work includes not only directing the movie, but also writing and producing. For example in his latest feature film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino wrote, directed and had a major part in producing the movie, too. The movie went on to gross about $375 million and while his exact percentage is unknown, it could have been anywhere from $30 to $50 million dollars. That’s a hell of a lot more than the $50,000 he made from selling the script of True Romance in the ’90s.

Though most of his wealth comes from his own movies, Tarantino has also produced films too. In the mid 90s, the director founded the production company Rolling Thunder Pictures, which produced one of the most beloved Hong Kong movies of all time, Chungking Express. Outside of his own movies Tarantino advises and helps others, including has a hand in helping the producers of Hostel. An original horror story that is now a cult classic.

Tarantino has a directing and visual style that is so distinct it can be recognized by even general audiences. He uses a fusion of genres and often pays homage as artists do. For example, in Kill Bill Tarantino paid homage to Kung-Fu movies, in Django Unchained he reinvented the western genre, and True Romance was reminiscent of Badlands.

Although it may have actually been Tony Scott who brought that influence into True Romance.

Then in Inglourious Basterds, the director changed history and while telling a unique story of a band of Jewish slayers led by a half Comanche Brad Pitt, it ends with Hitler getting blown up in a 1940s French cinema.

When it comes to casting, Tarantino has revitalized careers of actors like Tim Roth and Michael Madsen. Samuel L. Jackson got his big break starring as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction at 46 years old. John Travolta also saw an upswing in his career from his role as Vincent Vega.

Some would even say he brought Kurt Russell back front and center and if you watch Russell’s performance in the Hateful Eight you remember immediately why this person is so entirely brilliant. For example his hilarious bit with him and his Australian or New Zealand-accented wife in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Tarantino’s movies are often multi-stranded sometimes with an ensemble cast of a-listers, unknowns, and seasoned Hollywood stars. The writer also casts lesser known actors who are incredible but haven’t had their breakthrough yet.

Like the casting of Christoph Waltz in ‘Inglourious Basterds’ who went on to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as Hans Landa.

He then proved it was no fluke when he won Best Supporting Role again for his role as Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012).

Though Tarantino is one of the most creative directors working today, he also has a business head on him. He has navigated Hollywood like very few know how. And at the back of all that is Tarantino. He always has a solid script or idea or something that Hollywood loves best, a controversial but influential movie that reminds us why America producers some of the best movies that are made.

‘My theory is’

My theory is, that because Quentin Tarantino is such an incredible perfectionist and just mentally in love with every aspect of movie-making. From writing the script to pitching the idea and getting actors and producers involved. To directing the scenes and getting exactly what he wants. As well as being a major part of the post and pre-production interviews and generating the buzz. He may be in a fluid creative experience at almost all times doing these things and that is why his movies are so good. 

Summing-Up

Tarantino has come a long way since his first job working in a movie store, kickstarting a film career through Samurai-like perfection and dedication to his craft. We find ourselves rewatching Tarantino movies on an annual almost ritual like basis, ironically just to relax. While somewhat controversial, Tarantino is often misjudged until one finally stops judging, sits back, relaxes and take in one of his movies not in part, not in clips, but as one total experience.